Why does alcohol make stress and depression “go away” almost instantly but is making it worse in the long run?
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Alcohol doesn’t make stress or depression go away, it just makes you not care about it as much temporarily. All of the problems are still there, it just allows you to pretend you’re coping with them for a bit. And while you are pretending to cope your brain and liver is being damaged making it harder to perform detox and emotional regulation. You’re making it harder to produce dopamine and serotonin naturally making it harder to regulate stress and sleep. Which in turns makes you want to drink more which makes the damage that much worse and harder to deal with. Until you get to the point of cirrhosis and you can no longer pull the toxic substances out of your blood and then you die
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