Whenever I drink alcohol I'm as social as a regular person, pretty high energy and I get good results. I wanna be able to do this sober. When I DD for friends I have the worst approach anxiety. When a friend introduces me to a girls I handle it pretty well. The only thing that I notice is that I feel a level of danger and both my drunk friends are in game and I dont have a sober friend I don't know. So Im not socializing with anyone at the party because I dont know anyone. However I fell a better sense of security when I have at least 1 friend that is in the same position as me.

When you say using alcohol, how much do you mean and what level are you at?

Would you say you're tipsy or closer to really drunk because my advice would differ slightly depending.

If you're tipsy then it might be better to have one less drink and try and build confidence by trying your usual moves at that level and then slowly scaling back to the point where you can open etc without having had a drink.

If you're closer to drunk/messy then you definitely need to cut down and try to maintain that tipsy level, trying to run your game and then once you feel comfortable cut down drinks until you can do your thing stone cold sober.

Don't use alcohol as a crutch!