It has to be done though, especially if you want to cope with PTSD. It hurts to face things without something to suppress it, but alcohol is most definately not the answer. There is nothing wrong with having a beer or two each day, but that is the limit for someone with PTSD IMHO. I changed after ridding alcohol that much, I noticed it and couldn't deny it to myself. I would be drunk most of the time, trying to suppress everything, but it was making things worse, and I know that now.

Still now, sometimes when I am having a rough trot, I want to just go get sloshed and wipe it all from me, but I know that the problem will just be waiting for me to sober up, so I just say stuff it now, and work my own way through things, in my own time. Alcohol tends to keep a denial facet around within oneself with PTSD, which we really can't afford to do... from my experience anyway. I have mates who are still dependant upon alcohol, and are depressed daily, suicidal, angry, agressive, etc etc etc, but they know they have PTSD, and they know its not a solution, but they refuse to change. They aren't doing very well... to say the least.