I don't disagree with you, but that's much easier said than done considering past trauma in most people (including myself). I do self Medicate, but I have at least moved away from alcohol other than the occasional beer which is getting more and more occasional.

A few weeks ago I dumped lots of varieties of liquor that had been sitting on my shelf for years, I almost never drank it but had sunk cost fallacied myself into keeping it for longer than I should have. Glad it's gone. I'd rather work to think about things that bother me, not run away and suppress those same thoughts.