Alcohol should never be used for stress, only for social lubrication.
There's better ways to deal with stress. Pump iron, or go for a run. 30-60 minutes of running should give you a reset.
There's better ways to deal with stress. Pump iron, or go for a run. 30-60 minutes of running should give you a reset.
Maybe a small bit of spirit is helpfull for digestion. For everything else, alcohol is a nervous agent. Social easing is a bit like shaking up the weights of a neural network, a little randomization does often make no difference and might even help to get out of a local minimum, but also away from an optimum. You don't want to go at it with a cheese grater and kitchen mixer, or let an epileptic operate with a rusty knife on an open heart.
What worked for me years later was to actually work out and lose weight and people start looking at you differently.