Alcohol and causation

[LookingforAnswers]

Im curious to see the link between mental illness and alcohol. I know a lot of use alcohol to help ease the mental illness and relieve symptoms.

But im more curious before your mental illness. What was your alcohol usage like? And do you tie that to your mental illness?

For me personally i have had several regrets with drinking starting at age 17 that I never really figured out. Continued to binge drink on weekends and make more mistakes. A big mistake last year due to alcohol caused me to spiral downward.

Interested to see if people have similar experiences

 

[Everybody_yells]

Well this is going to sound strange and hard to believe but I did not touch alcohol or smoked until I was 26. And as you would expect, yes my depression and pain is what made me turn to such substances.

Lol, I never liked drinking, I still don't, but I do that to numb the pain or to stop my brain from thinking. But then the way the hangover makes me feel, pulls me often from engaging.

How is your usage now? is it controlled ?

 

[timf]

There may be an overlap with combat veterans who "self-medicate" with alcohol

 

[bad luck]

Well, it works fine at first. Then you build tolerance and drink 2 liters of beer as if it were water to relieve your symptoms a little. It is known as an anxiolytic, but, as an alcoholic, I recommend you not to abuse or have a love relationship with alcohol. I've gotten in trouble for it.

 

[BigG91]

In my personal opinion i think alcohol is addictive and if you are a sane person then not much can go wrong but you will get addicted to alcohol and start drinking everyday because you will get used to or have no hangovers.

Mental illnesses are more of a genetic or long term environmental/surrounding effect on the brain function so they have more to do with how you have felt or experienced life and of it could be imperfections in the brain too...

If i wasn't mental ill i would be binge drinking my ass off every weekend with my friends.

 

[onlyanimalsaregood]

I used to drink to forget almost every day, it got to a point where I drank a lot to have some effect but unfortunately alcohol didn't make me forget, it made me think even more about the things that upset me and then because I was drunk I used to do shit. I haven't touched alcohol in 3 weeks and I'm taking the medication I was supposed to when I stopped because of alcohol. I've always been afraid of mixing the two. In conclusion, I think alcohol is bad for mental health, especially depression, since alcohol also has a depressive effect.