i too had a problem with alcohol in the past. my last year or two of college were pretty depressing and i kind of just shut everyone out of my life and started drinking heavily.
many times i tried to stop but the withdrawal is really rough- a true alcoholic knows the feeling and will risk long term health just to get rid of those short term withdrawal feelings. this is the condition i was in when i resorted to drinking mouthwash a couple of times, and it’s precisely when i realized how serious my problem had become and decided to tackle it once and for all.
if you’re not a drunk like i was, DON’T by any means become one and have to drink that crap to avoid seizures, hallucinations, etc. if you are a drunk and have terrible anxiety when you are sober, it’s a strange thing to say but just get your hands on some real booze meant for drinking and don’t quit cold turkey before you can get medical help. that’s probably better than both trying to quite all at once and/or drinking mouthwash.
as for the mouthwash, it’s relatively notorious for it’s ability to intoxicate. alcoholics often take bottles to work and drink some amounts during the day because they are withdrawing until 5pm hits and they can get to the bar and no one really notices they are actually ingesting the stuff. believe it or not, there are ways to get drunk/high without needing to show id, this is why so many young kids drink cough syrup, mouthwash, or things like peppermint extracts (this is impossible to get down, btw)
as opposed to what some people are saying on here (don’t have to comment if you don’t really know the answers, btw), the alcohol in mouthwash is ethanol- the stuff in beer,liquor. but it has other harmful stuff in it like benzoic acid- anyone who’s taken a college chemistry course knows that it is poisonous if ingested.
if you’re really wondering about getting drunk with stuff meant to kill bacteria in your mouth, i strongly recommend that you either just forget about it or find the means to get actual drinking alcohol if you really have to have a fix.