Drinking: A cycle of anxiety, depression and not eating

So I felt like posting this after seeing one of the below posts regarding anxiety and alcohol and wanted to add my own experience. Over 3 years ago I began University and anyone that has been to school knows the anxiety it gives you. Well guess what happened, I began medicating with alcohol and so the cycle began. I would drink to relieve my anxiety, to do this I would not eat for long periods of time because I was 1)Getting garbage calories from the booze and 2) Could get drunker for cheaper. As anyone knows not eating+anxiety+drinking= Way way more anxiety. As one of the comments in the other post said, it's like pouring gas onto a fire to put it out. This all lead to me missing classes, staying in my room and quiting many of the things I love and we all know what that path goes, depression. The whole cycle would begin over and over again worsening my mental state. Eventually I began failing classes and was forced to take a break which continues to this day. I have since then began eating a little better and many of my depressive thought have been reduced by the cycle of anxiety and alcohol still continues. I have tried many times to quit but when the anxiety start I cave ever single time. I don't even enjoy the feeling of alcohol anymore, I just love not feeling anxiety constantly, it's like a clearing on cloudy day, the simple relief. Anxiety cripples me, it doesn't allow my to day anything or enjoy anything and I'm so sick and tired of it, I want to be free from this. So here's to this sub and giving sobriety another try.