How I cope with attacks

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I'm on my third bottle.

I can tell, your vision is really blurry.

Seriously though, think about seeing a professional if you feel the need to drink to cope.

Dude, I would cool off the booze man. Drinking by yourself ain't fun and neither is being an alcoholic.

Are you looking for advice genuinely or just venting?

I don't know what I want anymore.

There are other ways to deal with your feelings. Go for a walk, take a bath, listen to some music, phone a friend or trusted relative.

Is that a pipe and steel wool behind the bottle?

Being an aspie, there's always a chance that your drinking buddies are just trying to get you to make a fool of yourself while drunk.

I haven't had much taste for the hard stuff in years, but in the past 10 years I have tended to resort to an excess of wine and beer to cope with boredom and depression.

And now it looks like I might have diabetes.

My point is this. Resorting to alcohol only knocks you senseless for a short period of time. It doesn't do anything to fix a problem. But it can lead to health problems 10, 20, 30 years down the line. When you are in your twenties, it can be very hard to see the impact drinking too much might have on your life decades from now. Heck, even now, I sometimes think I'd really like to lose myself in a bottle of wine, knowing full well how it might increase the pain in my hands or the exhaustion I feel when my blood sugar gets wacky.

Neil Young has a line in one of his songs "... Fighting drugs with pain..." You have to face the pain and unpleasantness in your life. Fight through it and beat the actual problem rather than anesthetizing yourself. You have to accept the fact that you will feel some pain, but if you look your demons in the eyes, you just might beat them.

Life isn't easy. Sometimes the best solution is to knock yourself out. But you need to have the wisdom to know when drinking is the right choice and when it is the wrong choice and you have to have the strength to do what you know is right.

Your emotional life may get easier as you get older. But you don't want your physical health to deteriorate just as you get to a point where you can enjoy your life.

Good luck.