Been here before.

You've been getting a lot of good advice from people with a few cumulative centuries of coping successfully ( more or less ) with their attractions.

You seem willing to reject anything you've heard that might require you to make any changes you weren't already going to before you heard the advice; including forgoing alcohol as a "coping tool."

But this Board has been around for a while. A handful of angry and reckless young Peds have been outed and jailed as a consequence of their belief that the world will adjust itself to suit them.

A few even had the nerve to claim ( after the fact ) that the repeated warnings they ignored should have been issued more frequently or even agreed to as a registration requirement.

But hey, folks are perfectly capable of running headlong towards their own harm offline as well. And at least the advice is out there for all to see.

Dante