I’ve dealt with anxiety my whole life. I’m 25 years old, it’s mainly social anxiety and existential anxiety surrounding health and constant worrying about the people close to me dying. I’ve tried antidepressants, therapy, exercise and that works for a short time but it’s almost like the placebo wears off and I go back to my usual bad habits. It’s crazy because I have health anxiety but yet I poison my body with alcohol and marijuana for that short term relief. How many of you use drugs/alcohol to cope with the anxiety and what’s been your experience with it? And for those that do have anxiety and rarely ever if not never use drugs or alcohol, how? That’s the question I find it hard to wrap my head around.