For 20 years I drank to cope with my BPD. To be honest it worked very well! Never drank everyday and most of the time did not even need to get drunk. Of course depending on how strong my emotions were would depend on how much I drank. After my best friends suicide, my drinking got very dangerous and I would just do very crazy things. Today I am 800 days sober. It is a struggle but I am very afraid if I drink I will hurt someone or myself.

Only the person can decide if your drinking is dangerous or harmful. If someone could just do it to take their emotional edge off from time to time like I did for many years then who am I to judge. But then again it took like 5 years of literal hell to finally get sober!! Waking up from a blackout not knowing the crazy things I had done is a very very scary thing. As they say it progressive.

Cocked and Loaded is a really good book about someone that shot someone in a bar in a blackout. Found out the next morning when he woke up did not remember a thing--true story! I read alcohol books, news articles, ect to constantly remind me how important my sobriety is.