I can identify with your reasons for drinking Woofy. It sounds a lot like me when I was in my mid 20s. I was lucky enough to go thru a rehab program for free at a USPH hospital in the mid 70s in SF. They got everyone there on antabuse. They said it was a tool to help establish sober habits. Support groups are good because you need to try and change the people that you hang with, at least with me that was the case.
I always found that drinking seemed to slowly make my depression worse down the road. Social anxiety and dealing with stress is something that I slowly had to work on. I remember the head doctor telling us about the pitfall of using Valium to deal with stress.. The source of the stress is not going to go away once the Valium wears off. He was trying to encourage us to have the courage to face the source of the stress and work thru it being sober.