Does alcohol cause depression? Can drinking cause anxiety?

Is alcohol making you depressed or causing anxiety? Maybe you think alcohol helps relieve depression and anxiety?

Is there a link between alcohol and depression? Is alcohol the fuel on the fire of anxiety or does it help ease the anxious feelings?

These were all questions I asked myself when I used to drink. I was a heavy daily wine drinker, I would get through 1-3 bottles every single night and I drank like this for over twenty years.

I truly believed that alcohol helped ease my anxiety and made depression go away, I also thought that drinking helped me relax, yet my moods were always low, I was irritable, snappy and my moods swung like a pendulum most of the time.

My life felt as though a dark cloud of misery followed me around most of the time, all I wanted was to be happy but I had no idea how. Everyone else seemed to laugh, smile and have joy in their lives yet I felt as though I had an emptiness inside of me.

Eventually I realised that alcohol was a big part of my problem...

I finally learned that I was holding onto false beliefs, but to me, they were totally true, until I realised they were completely wrong and were holding me back.

My beliefs included:

"Alcohol helps me relax"
"Alcohol helps my anxiety"
"Alcohol eases my moods"
"I don't feel depressed when I drink"

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If this magical substance was relaxing me and helping my mental health, how come over the years my anxiety and feelings of depression had got worse and my moods had become darker? What was the truth about alcohol, depression and anxiety?

The fact is that alcohol is a depressant which can dull our senses while we are drinking, but after the effects have worn off it has been scientifically proven to cause both anxiety and depression. The day after we drink we can find anxiety and depression begin to sky-rocket and we need to drink again to ease the uncomfortable feelings and emotions.

It becomes a vicious cycle - I was drinking daily, often 2-3 bottles of wine each night.

Now I am sober I talk openly about my mental health and how alcohol made it so much worse. In this video I discuss how my anxiety has faded to almost nothing since I chose to stop drinking and my moods are the best they have been since I was a child.

If you drink alcohol regularly and suffer from anxiety, whether that is social anxiety or general anxiety, or, if you find yourself feeling depressed or in low moods most of the time, you need to watch this video.

When I discovered the link between alcohol, anxiety and depression I felt like I had found a big piece of my mental health jigsaw. The more I learned, the more at peace I became as I worked on claiming back the power that drinking had taken over my life.

You can claim back the power and will likely be able to make significant changes to the way that depression and anxiety feature in your lives by quitting alcohol.

If you are unsure where to start when it comes to stopping drinking for good make sure you watch the other videos on my YouTube channel to set you on the path to freedom.

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Simon Chapple
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