I've posted it so often that I should probably start giving the author a commission lol. I'm hopeful that people with anxiety read it and think about trying cutting booze out altogether before taking other less healthy routes like popping Xanax and other benzos that are so often prescribed but that are dependency causing in themselves. You're just swapping out one dependency for another in my view.

Some people truly need to be on medication for anxiety, and I'm not knocking pharmacological intervention in desperate cases, but I'd hope that people would try kicking the alcohol first for 6 months, and then see how they feel, because I think the vast majority just from being alcohol free would see a huge improvement. I suffered hugely from anxiety and had more than one doctor offer me pills, which I balked at and thankfully didn't go along with. I never had anxiety, I had a drinking problem. Quit drinking, and my anxiety is probably 95% non existent. Now I only get 'healthy' anxiety, the type everyone should and does have, like before an interview or something, that's completely normal.

So I can't stress enough Redditors, cut the booze bottle before you reach for the pill bottle! Could save you a lot of heartache with side effects, dependence, addiction and the like. Also save you money I suppose, pills are usually expensive. With Xanax and derivatives being classed as more addictive than heroin, and creating more addicts worldwide than 'street drugs', please look at your drinking habits before just blindly accepting meds from your doctor. If they're any worthwhile kind of doctor they should've noticed that you have a problem with alcohol anyway and should be helping you with that instead of giving you 2 dependencies instead of 1.
Here endeth the lecture for today. ; )