>>386586380
the key is to use alcohol as a little boost from time to time, not as a crutch. if you teach yourself to rely on it too much for socialization or fitting in you'll end up as an annoying depressed alcoholic like many other people
I can count the amount of times I've drank in VR since I got it on one hand despite suffering from pretty bad social anxiety at the start, and I feel completely fine. got over the majority of my anxiety too