Alcohol reduced my anxiety – but at a cost | Letter

Paula McInally responds to an extract from Gemma Correll’s book on her relationship with booze

I read your article (Welcome to Anxietyland: I used alcohol to hide my fear – but booze became a very bad friend, 3 May) with the particular recognition of someone who is still in the middle of it.

I’m 37. I’ve spent the past few weeks signed off work with burnout and depression. And like Gemma, I found that alcohol was very good at taking the edge off. Until it wasn’t.