Why does alcohol make stress and depression “go away” almost instantly but is making it worse in the long run?
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1) Alcohol trips your dopamine buttons a little more than usual : you feel good
2) Alcohol runs out, dopamine goes back down: anxiety, depression, regret
Over time, alcohol becomes the ONLY thing that can get you to even basic levels of dopamine. But you have to keep drinking more and more quantities to get you back to that high you felt in step 1. Eventually, even that doesn’t work, now you’re just drinking to forget about how sad and depressed you are. Or because you’re now physically addicted to it.
Source: am recovering alcoholic
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