[asdffdsa]

When I used to drink regularly (6x a week or so, light on the weekdays but binge drinking on the weekends), I'd have anxiety on the weekday nights. My habit would be to quell it with a drink because alcohol "reduces anxiety".

However, after reading up on how one of the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is increased anxiety, and hypothesizing that the weekday drinks actually made my anxiety worse overall I stopped drinking on weekdays and limited drinking on weekdays a bit. My anxiety improved after that.

[mjbeswick]

It's more the fact that alcohol is a depressant, so if you drink regularly enough you will feel when it's effects wear off. Benzodiazepine and GHB produce a similar kind of withdrawal.