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Noticed that both you and the OP mentioned drinking. Just the drinking can cause much of this. Drinking screws up your sleep cycle, which can also cause much of
by gexla 5y ago
Noticed that both you and the OP mentioned drinking. Just the drinking can cause much of this. Drinking screws up your sleep cycle, which can also cause much of this. Drinking sessions are also time consuming, so you have less time for other things you enjoy anyway. Sure, some things you can do while drinking, but those may not be the things you would prefer to be doing while sober.
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- ethbr0 5y agoThese effects fit serious online gaming pretty accurately too. Screws up your sleep cycle, is time consuming, causes you to not leave the house, makes other hobbies fall by the wayside.
- ishche 5y agoI was under impression that an alcohol causes a depression.
- girvo 5y agoAlcohol is a central nervous system depressant, which is commonly just shortened to “depressant”. This doesn’t mean it causes depression, it means it has a particular effect on us humans biologically. That said, it does also exacerbate clinical depression, so this gets confusing quickly!
- sdze 5y agoMany depressed people use alcohol as medication. otherwise most of them wouldn’t want to socialise at all.
- slfnflctd 5y agoThat's a massive oversimplification which came out of non-scientific 12 step literature and is simply not true in many situations. I have on many occasions beaten back total anhedonia and a desire to die with a few drinks. It's not an optimal solution obviously, but when your options are limited it is sometimes quite preferable to not drinking.
- serverlessmom 5y ago>I have on many occasions beaten back total anhedonia and a desire to die with a few drinks. It's not an optimal solution obviously, but when your options are limited it is sometimes quite preferable to not drinking As someone who has suffered major depression, I agree totally that recreational drug use can be helpful in managing some symptoms of mental disorder. I do however feel like moderation is a very important aspect of this which can be harder for folks when they are already feeling down
- girvo 5y agoSure! Though I drink basically not at all when I’m not in a depressive episode. It’s more of a subconscious “self medication” thing, and the symptoms don’t subside even if I’m not drinking sadly.
- jjeaff 5y agoSeems like a stimulant might be a more logical self medication for depression than a depressant.
- girvo 5y agoA Central Nervous System Depressant and Clinical Depression are two (basically) unrelated concepts. Alcohol is the former. Despite having the same word in them, they are only tangentially related to one another