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Alcohol and depression?

Alcohol and depression are two areas that are intimately linked and for most seem to go hand in hand. Visit https://www.thisnakedmind.com to start reading This Naked Mind for free today! Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind is answering reader's questions live. Today she answers, Alcohol and depression? For many people, they cannot decide if alcohol led to depression or if depression led to drinking alcohol. I have yet to find someone who has ever declared though that alcohol improved their depression or eradicated it. Instead for many, like Heather who inspired this blog post, the relationship between alcohol and depression has only caused more sorrow. There is no doubt that alcohol and depression are linked and the bond between them is strong. Alcohol is a type of drug known as a depressant – this means that it depresses arousal levels and reduces excitability. Not only can alcohol abuse significantly worsen the symptoms of depression, but it can also cause them to occur in the first place. I personally suffered from depression and anxiety since I was a child and was officially diagnosed with depression more than 17 years ago. This subject has interested me ever since. The chicken and egg relationship between alcohol and depression is interesting because did alcohol cause the depression you are feeling or did depression cause an addiction to alcohol? There is a strong case for both to be true. About a year after I stopped drinking the novelty wore off. I had gone through every situation and proven to myself that life was better without alcohol but I was not longer as excited about it as I was before. I experienced, around this time, one of my bouts of anxiety and depression and in that month I started to mourn alcohol. Why? Because as I always had I channeled my depression into this bucket. My mind began to tell me that I didn’t use to feel so sad, that I didn’t use to be depressed that the reason I was now feeling all of this was because I no longer drank. That if I could just take the edge off with one glass of wine then I would be able to deal with this – I would be able to handle it. I began to feel like it was unfair that I couldn’t drink. I think this is the most dangerous aspect of the relationship between alcohol and depression – the idea that somehow not drinking is partially responsible for your depression and that drinking would some how ease it.