Just turned 20 a couple weeks ago, I've already gone through about 6 months of moderate drinking drank 5/7 days got tipsy most of those nights.

After a while I decided I'd like to cut down a little because it was killing my motivation to go get a job and improve myself. Second day after not drinking the symptoms started, which last about a week. Anger, sweats, insomnia, worse depression, bad dreams, and the reason I don't drink much anymore, extreme trouble breathing while laying down. I've still never heard of that last symptom from anyone else.

Anyway, I went on ativan for a few days, found it made detoxing smooth and I quit for a couple of months, but found social gatherings alot more stressed and generally less enjoyable. So I tried drinking again, the same withdrawal symptoms came back a couple days after as if I'd never stopped. I experiemented and found even one small glass of wine to make withdrawal, although not as severe a couple days after.

TLDR
I was mainly wondering if there was any drug that you could take or period of time of not drinking you could spend for the withdrawals to not come back? It just doesn't seem right that after such a relatively short period of time my body is wrecked for the rest of my life.

PS. I've tried probably 5 different anti depressants from seperate drug classes all with horrible side effects or just plain old didn't do a thing. Alcohol was/is the only thing that worked for me.