I’ve had an on and off battle with ad-hoc self medication for anxiety via heavy drinking for like twenty years, by “on and off” I mean that some situations didn’t really trigger it much, and other situations made it life defeating.

As close as I’ve come to an effective remediation was living abroad where the food wasn’t actively adversarial: capitalism can do many good things but it drives the quality of food to “edible plus epsilon”. Rich people eat pasture-raised shit for a reason. For me it just deleted that problem.

But I’m interested in this class of medication because it’s difficult bordering on impractical to eat well in some regions. People say just cook, well, there’s an infrastructure around that which amounts to a declared bias against those who didn’t settle down young. Much like people who met their partner before partnering became monetized, “easy for you to say”.

I hope you have success in your journey either way, and the less meds involved on average probably better, but if it works and has no bad side effects I don’t see why one would stop. Welcome to your new awesome life!

Every SV power player I’ve ever met was enhancing themselves via chemicals. It’s not tweeted about (other than when Garry Tan threatens elected officials), but it’s a quiet norm.