Thanks. That's an interesting point. This isn't the same, but: One thing that T said in session that I forgot to include is that by drinking to avoid anxiety, then I'm not learning the skills to get through the anxiety. So then I feel I *have* to turn to alcohol in those situations. So one thing we're going to work on is ways for me to deal with that anxiety on my own. Ex-T did some of that, and it worked a bit, but...clearly not enough. Some of it was CBT stuff, and it didn't really work for me at the time (6 years ago), but maybe I can try some of that sort of thing again with current T (he's also trained in that, along with other stuff). Or maybe he'll have ideas for other approaches. (We really haven't addressed anxiety/panic that much yet, since there were other things I was dealing with.)