Lonely just want someone to chat with

@aboveaverage other than you huh

@Youngwolf Apart from loneliness, is there anything else getting you down?
Anxiety, anger, being down on yourself, state of the world, fatigue, hangover... ?

@hartfire all of those minus hangover I usually don’t get hungover easy

@Youngwolf
Try reading [i]Breaking The Patterns Of Depression[/i] by Michael Yapko. He's the best on the topic. All of it practical. Cheapest therapy there is.

Getting onto a social site like this is not a bad start - though it contains fischers, pros, salesmen, evangelists, con-artists and trolls. We soon learn to recognise them and develop defenses.
Finding like-minded friends has about the same level of difficulty and ease as in real life - takes patience. Eventually, you're likely to meet at least one person who's sympatico. Others make very agreeable acquaintances.

PS Chemically, alcohol is a depressant.
If you have high tolerance (iw, don't get hung over easily), you may be drinking quite a lot. There'll be phases of abstinence or maybe trying to cut down, but they don't last.
The hardest part is giving up. If you ever want to, try 6 visits in 6 weeks to a local AA group. They[i] give[/i] great support because they've lived the journey.