Used to self medicate with alcohol a lot, because under the effects I would feel better...be more talkative/energetic and yeah. I preferred to drink till I was puking rather than talk to people about how I felt. However in the long run did not find it all that useful....not to mention things like hang-overs do not help mental issues and it became pretty redundant to me. I mean 'woo hoo, I'm going to impair my frontal lobe for a while' just got old.

I still do drink but not nearly as much and only for like social occassions where there will be drinking or if I am in the right mood...there are still some rare times I just feel like crap and want anything to make it go away in which case I might drink for that...but try to avoid it. Eventually my drug of choice became cannabis and well can't say I have had any bad experiences with it, while with drinking I've over-done it, gotten bad hang overs probably lucky I never got any real internal problems from drinking since I was doing it quite excessively for at least a couple years.