This is medically implausible; alcohol has been clearly shown to negatively affect sleep, be addictive, reduce your coordination, and dehydrate you. It's also a carcinogen [0]. The snark with "Urgh" in response to reflective writing isn't helpful, either.

However: >Alcohol has been with mankind since the beginning.

This is potentially an interesting argument if further developed. I mentioned this book elsewhere in the comment section, but a philosophy professor wrote a book where he argues that "intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers." The Goodreads summary of the work continues: "Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication."

I would argue that it's plausible and potentially worth discussion that alcohol has had a net positive effect on the development of human civilization, though in practice this has no bearing on whether an individual alcohol habit (especially in excess) is useful for the individual.

[0] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohols-e...

Of course one could also raise the question if the development of human civilization (as we know it today) actually had a net positive effect on humanity.

My polite well mannered controlled self would have only thought the "urgh" and never posted it on this forum.

You seem to imply that alcohol is actually her liberator, showing her true self which she dislikes, and that she has decided she can only like herself when "inhibited."

That is a poor reading.

I'm pretty it also kills you albeit "slowly"

Enjoy a destroyed liver when you're older.