I have been drinking non stop for over a decade and I have anxiety and depression. Sometimes severe especially during the early evenings. Because that is when I feel like drinking but 100% of the time, manage to succcessfully opt out of it because of work the next day. The successful opting out of drinking however, gives me alcohol withdrawal which gives me an automatic physiological/psychological response. I go into severe depression/anxiety mode.
I realize that I have a lot of self control compared to others who drink a couple of times a week or more. So because of that I am really grateful and feel like helping others with addiction/alcohol abuse. Which I see everyday being in one of the major homeless capitals of America.