Using alcohol to take a mental break? Anyone do this and does it work?

I’m guessing this is part of the reason people drink on weekends. I can’t do other drugs due to psychosis and I wouldn’t want to anyway because I do them to excess. Alcohol although I’ve went over the top before, I don’t struggle with becoming addicted (or getting psychosis from it)

So I was wondering to anyone who drinks on weekends do you do it for a mental break? Like a little chemical change in the brain to mark the end of a week and the start of the next. How well does it work to make you have a great start to the next week?

I want to try this because I get in to a cycle of depression for 3 weeks, hard work for 1 week. So it seems like one way I could try to break up that cycle.