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curl-6 on 31 October 2020
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Bristow9091 said:
curl-6 said:

I'm sorry to hear you're still having a rough time of it man. I used to drinking heavily to cope with mental health problems like depression and anxiety when I was 18-23, I was also essentially a high functioning alcoholic during those years of my life. 

There's no easy fix, but what helped me was to use my support network as much as possible, to be open with my issues and ask for help from friends, family, professionals. Getting on the right medication also helped me to stop self-medicating my drinking to excess.

Honestly I've accepted that for the most part I'm pretty much always going to drink, I've tried therapy for my problems, I've tried medication, therapy did nothing and the medication made me feel worse, especially since everything I was prescribed seemed to clash with my epilepsy medication too... drinking has basically become my coping mechanism for when my mental health takes a nosedive, and this year has had it in a constant downward trajectory to the point where, well let's say I've made some questionable decisions. I've tried reaching out to friends and family about my mental health problems, but my friends are never around to talk, as if everyone's drifted off, or they've drifted off together without me for the most part, and my family legit believe mental health is a myth or something, like my dad has this whole conspiracy about it, doesn't care that his son has almost died multiple times due to mental health issues, he's one of those old generation people who think men have to be manly men without feelings and shit and mental health was created to sell pills... I really wish I was exaggerating with this by the way. Anyway, this isn't the "Vent about your mental health issues" thread so I'm gonna' shut myself up before I carry on and say too much.

If you ever need to talk or just vent feel free to message me. I've been through some dark times myself so I know how hard it can be. Know that you are cared about here.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 01 November 2020