>Because two drinks in I get melancholic, three I start crying, at night I have nightmares and sleep lightly or not at all[...]Because we drink to soften life’s

>Because two drinks in I get melancholic, three I start crying, at night I have nightmares and sleep lightly or not at all[...]Because we drink to soften life’s regrets but most of my bad memories from adulthood involve drinking—the rages, the heartbreaks, the slumps; because drinking promises to ease the pain over what’s lost but I’ve lost things in my life because I or someone I was with was drunk. I mean, it doesn't sound like it's the alcohol itself that is the problem here. It sounds more like someone using alcohol as a means to self-medicate, and to quote Christopher Hitchens, don't drink if you have the blues, it's a junk cure. Drink when you're in a good mood. Alcohol is great to enliven company, to make food more pleasurable, even contrary to popular opinion a drink alone can be great. Nightly coding sessions being somewhat buzzed are surprisingly fun. Don't drink to drown bad emotions, that's never a good idea.