Today was a horrible day

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I woke up in the morning with a cold, I had some more homework piled on to my already large stack, and the picture on my computer monitor started being all messed up this afternoon. I can barely see what I'm typing on the flickering screen. I bought 8 ounces of .7 vodka off of my friend after that happened. I've never drank more alcohol than a few sips of wine before, but life has been stressing me out and I've been thinking about starting drinking. My friend said it would calm me down. For the last couple of months every week has been tragic for me.

I won't say its bad to drink.. in moderation. I guess, you're pairing it with negative things happening in your life. From personal experience, that never ends up good. Whenever I was an angry or depressed drunk, I did and said a ton of things. It makes it easier to get angry. It makes it easier to cry. That's my experience with it.

Only time I drank to help get over some bad feelings, was when my last gf left me. I downed 2 rum & cokes in 15 minutes (i don't recommend that by the way). Put me out of my mind for the next 2 hours. But that was it, it was a short term pain killer. It still hurt the next morning (the breakup not the booze), but it was manageable.

So my point, alcohol can be an effective tool, but it has to be used VERY VERY sparingly, and only in certain circumstances. Honestly, for your situation, I wouldn't use it.

Alcohol's effects on the brain are chemical, it will wear off and you'll feel yourself tomorrow.

Alcohol is a depressant so it's never a good cure for depression or stress.

I fixed the problems with my screen. The graphics card wasn't working, so I set it back to the internal one. I'm going to buy another one pretty soon. I've still got the bottle of vodka though. I guess I'll save it for a while. Fixing my screen improved my day enough that I don't feel like drinking it now.