should i start drinking?

[jlim]

Im 18 and i've never drank before at any gatherings etc because i literally found no benefit to drinking, makes u bloated/red and also I am pretty health conscious about what I eat (a lot of us here are tbh). Recently some events have caused depression to increase a shit ton, i'm running out of copes in life, the main reason why I don't drink is because I feel like I would become addicted to it as a cope. Idk what I should do, i don't want it to make my life worse, we know what alc does to people, look at "heed and succeed"


tldr: im running out of copes in life but scared of alchol ruining my life