Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Alcoholic Depression: What You Need To Know About It

By Tom O

Depression is a major concern in todayas society, especially when it coexists with alcohol abuse. Depression has been evident more often in women than men. Alcohol only increases the effects of depression. In fact a simple hangover from drinking too much alcohol is a mild form of depression. When people drink to relieve depression, it usually ends up solving nothing and makes things worse when the alcohol wears off.

Alcohol affects your body in many ways. It affects your brain and nervous system by changing the way you feel. It also affects your coordination, the way you control yourself, your speech, behaviors, and makes your body more prone to disease. Drinking alcohol lowers your bodyas quantity of Vitamin C which causes people who drink to get wrinkles faster than other people. Also, when you drink alcohol constantly your tolerance for it increases which means you need to drink more to get the same affect that you are looking for. This is not good for the body because alcohol contains a lot of calories that will increase your weight. Alcohol does nothing good for the body so why drink it?

The depressant effect of alcohol increases with B.A.C. and has been measured in terms as it effects humans performances at B.A.C's as low as 0.003. This BAC level can be obtained by consuming 1-2 alcoholic beverages. Alcohol is a depressant that slows the brain and nervous system activity down. When one or two drinks may make someone feel relaxed, alcohol causes and increases feelings of anxiety, depression, and also aggression. It's first effect, is to distort your judgment and lower your inhibition, as it reaches the outer brain. It makes you feel like you're doing something good by drinking it, because it produces euphoria (a sense of pleasure). As you drink more and more, your coordination and perception are greatly effected, and can cause you to have memory blackouts. Once the alcohol reaches the medulla (inner core of the brain), your heart rate drops and breathing problems persist, and leads to death. Research suggests that continued alcohol use can cause depression. Alcohol robs brain cells of water and glucose, the brain's food, causing you to have a hangover the next day.

Alcoholic Depression Effects may include: -Loosing sleep -You feel worn out all the time. -You may begin to think suicidal thoughts. -Effects on your outer appearance, such as weight and skin. -Effects on your work and home life. -Missing out on other things to spend more time drinking. -You start to drink earlier in the morning. -You wake with shaky hands. -You may feel a strong need to drink, which means you don't feel normal without it. The depressant effect of alcohol increases with B.A.C. and has been measured in terms as it effects humans performances at B.A.C's as low as 0.003. This BAC level can be obtained by consuming 1-2 alcoholic beverages. Alcohol is a depressant that slows the brain and nervous system activity down. When one or two drinks may make someone feel relaxed, alcohol causes and increases feelings of anxiety, depression, and also aggression. It's first effect, is to distort your judgment and lower your inhibition, as it reaches the outer brain. It makes you feel like you're doing something good by drinking it, because it produces euphoria (a sense of pleasure). As you drink more and more, your coordination and perception are greatly effected, and can cause you to have memory blackouts. Once the alcohol reaches the medulla (inner core of the brain), your heart rate drops and breathing problems persist, and leads to death. Research suggests that continued alcohol use can cause depression. Alcohol robs brain cells of water and glucose, the brain's food, causing you to have a hangover the next day.

I've never experienced alcoholic depression, but I have known a couple people who have, and let me just tell you it's not an easy thing to go through. If you or someone you know is going through alcoholic depression, they really need encouragement to quit, and most of all a caring friend. They need motivation to quit, and they need someone to help them get through this. They need all the understanding and care that they can get. Also consider going to a therapist, or getting prescription anti-depressants to help ease the problem, the non-alcoholic way. As you begin to start trying to be sober, it may be hard at first, but you'll feel good about yourself, and you'll feel a lot better than you did before. The best way to stay healthy and happy, is don't drink alcohol at all. Many of people drink alcohol to turn away from their problems, instead of facing them. It actually increases them and makes it all worse. Worse on you, worse on your body, worse on your life. When my friends went through alcoholic depression, I was very understanding and showed that I really cared. I helped them through the situation and was there for them any time they needed me. I would hate to see anyone suffer through this, it's just not fair to themselves or their body. Alcohol tricks you by making you feel good or making you feel pleasure, but at the same time, it's doing something terrible such as take your life away. It may take a long time to recover from an alcoholic depression/addiction, but it's possible, for even the worst alcoholic. Stop drinking before it's too late. You can control your wellness, even though it may be something hard to accomplish, it's possible to do.

Getting drunk isn't as fun as it may seem. Your body, brain, and nervous system slowly start to shut down, and can lead to psychosis, dementia, or even worse, death. This is one of the leading causes of death in the United states. You certainly don't want to drink your life away, the gift of life is far too precious, and it shouldn't be taken for granted. Even the mildest case of drinking can start to kill you slowly. Talk to someone about your alcoholic problems, and start getting help today. Don't wait till it's too late. In the end. alcohol has more bad side effects and can cause you more harm than you think it can.

Make a good decision by not starting alcohol, smoking, or drugs at all. It will become an addiction and stay with you for the rest of your life, unless you seek out help, or get motivation to stop these habits. Many people don't seek out help and no matter how many times someone can tell a person how bad it's going to affect them, they'll keep doing it anyways until something drastic happens. That's what teenage mothers thought until they got pregnant. That's what alcohol addicts and smoking addicts thought before they got cancer. That's what drug addicts thought before they got memory loss. Or even worse, some don't get a second chance to make things right, and pass away. Anyone who makes a mistake in their life definitely wouldn't want others to follow their footsteps. As humans, we will all make mistakes, but what we can do to make things right again, is to learn from them. Learn from others mistakes. Think about why it's not a good idea to do the same thing.

Everyone at first has a choice to do things right, instead of wrong. It's harder to do right things than wrong, but when you do the wrong things, it can get pretty tough trying to set your life straight again. That's why you should just keep drugs and alcohol away from your lives completely, and not even start them at all. Life is not worth wasting it all away on these bad habits. Set a good example for your kids and others, and keep these habits out of your life completely. This will improve your health, family relationships, and save you money too. - 15478

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