Drinking to Cope?

Alcohol helps me talk to everyone and also talk about stuff that doesn't interest me. I don't drink now because I almost got to a point where I had to have a couple of beers to go out! not just go out but also to talk to people on the phone. any way I'm on antidepressants now and it kind of takes the sharp corners away from the cube of social anxiety. 

Interesting book. I have issues with alcohol, and AA did not help (seemed like a dangerous cult full of people I saw as "energy vampires"). Interestingly, every speaker said the same thing, that they had always felt they were "different" from everyone else. I fled in terror!

This is worth a read

www.amazon.co.uk/.../0141189592