I’ve seen several pieces of advice saying to avoid alcohol as it contributes to depression and anxiety. I believe it’s true, from experience. Just wondering why it’s true- what mechanisms are impacted by alcohol that contribute to depression and anxiety.
Only request: please don’t say ‘alcohol is a depressant.’ unless explaining how that makes alcohol contribute to depression/ anxiety (depressants are a completely different thing to depression)
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Depression and Anxiety are caused by the chemicals and connections in your brain not working like they normally should. Alcohol fucks around with those chemicals and connections even more, which doesn’t exactly improve things up there in the noggin, especially as alcohol tends to have a variety of potential effects on people compared to some other drugs, and you also get the psychological impacts of knowing that you are now coping with your depression or anxiety with substance abuse, and that said relief from being intoxicated is only temporary.
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