I've been thinking about root causes... I've suffered from a neurological disorder called misophonia since I was 6. It means literally, "hatred of sound". It's a focused form of sensory processing disorder- I hear certain sounds that cause *extreme* anxiety. I've been thinking for some time that this is the root of the drinking, for me.
Anyway, drug and alcohol abuse is exceedingly common in others with misophonia and SPD, and Asperger's- which I believe is associated. So I'm just wondering if anyone else here has suffered in this way. Or if not, is your 'root cause' easily identified?

I can see how drinking might help you with that.

For me I don't work with 'causes'. For many years I sought causes and reasons I drank, but it didn't stop me drinking. Same with the eating issue, I've been through everything, not left a stone unturned.

I just think it's me, my way of dealing with life which ended up in a physical and mental addiction.

I could list eating disorder, depression in me and throughout my family, obsessiveness, being bullied, domestic violence, anything but at the end of the day it was me.