People drink beer for a range of reasons and sometimes these reasons change. Here is a list of some of the most common reasons people quote for drinking:-It helps them to relax
-It gives them confidence
-It helps them to sleep
-It helps reduce anxiety
-It stops them worrying about things
-To deal with stress
-To deal with panic attacks
-Because they are depressed
-Dependant on it
-To counter-act withdrawal symptoms
With all of these reasons people are using alcohol to self medicate, in reality alcohol makes all of these symptoms worse, although in the short term it may increase confidence, be relaxing and reduce anxiety or worries, in the long term alcohol actually has the opposite effect, people who drink heavily over a long period tend to experience an increase in anxiety and may also get panic attacks.
Instead of helping with stress and worries long term drinking will cause more stress and worries of its own i.e. health, debt, family and relationship problems. It is impossible to treat depression whilst someone is drinking as the alcohol has the opposite action to the drugs prescribed for depression and of course alcohol itself being a depressant may actually be causing the symptoms rather than treating them.
Undergoing a medically assisted detoxification can reduce the side effects of physical dependency, such as shaking and sweating. The psychological dependency can also be treated over a longer time period. It is alcohol that is causing these so drinking more is not the solution
-It helps them to cope with life
-It helps them to cope with work
-To deal with bereavement
-To deal with family pressure
-To deal with a relationship break-up
-To deal with redundancy or another change of circumstance
-To cope with money worries
Although alcohol does reduce worry in the short term (i.e. for as long as they are drunk) it is not a suitable long-term solution. If people find they are frequently using alcohol to cope with stressful and worrying situations in their lives then they may need to consider finding another way of dealing with stress or to face the problem and deal with it rather than avoiding it. Alcohol cannot solve these problems and will always cause more problems of its own in terms of health and money etc. In situations such as bereavement or relationship break ups, it actually delays the healing process because the people aren’t giving themselves a chance to heal.
-Boredom
-Habit
Drinking is a bad habit to get into and if people have other things in their lives such as work, family, friends, hobbies, sports and leisure then they will find they will not be bored and they will get into new routines with different habits.
-Because everyone around them is drinking (friends & / or family)
-Its what’s done around here (community or environment)
-Part of the job (chef, bartender, salesman, businessman)
-Peer pressure – feel they have to
-Its cool
-Its grown up
-It gives them confidence
-It helps them to sleep
-It helps reduce anxiety
-It stops them worrying about things
-To deal with stress
-To deal with panic attacks
-Because they are depressed
-Dependant on it
-To counter-act withdrawal symptoms
With all of these reasons people are using alcohol to self medicate, in reality alcohol makes all of these symptoms worse, although in the short term it may increase confidence, be relaxing and reduce anxiety or worries, in the long term alcohol actually has the opposite effect, people who drink heavily over a long period tend to experience an increase in anxiety and may also get panic attacks.
Instead of helping with stress and worries long term drinking will cause more stress and worries of its own i.e. health, debt, family and relationship problems. It is impossible to treat depression whilst someone is drinking as the alcohol has the opposite action to the drugs prescribed for depression and of course alcohol itself being a depressant may actually be causing the symptoms rather than treating them.
Undergoing a medically assisted detoxification can reduce the side effects of physical dependency, such as shaking and sweating. The psychological dependency can also be treated over a longer time period. It is alcohol that is causing these so drinking more is not the solution
-It helps them to cope with life
-It helps them to cope with work
-To deal with bereavement
-To deal with family pressure
-To deal with a relationship break-up
-To deal with redundancy or another change of circumstance
-To cope with money worries
Although alcohol does reduce worry in the short term (i.e. for as long as they are drunk) it is not a suitable long-term solution. If people find they are frequently using alcohol to cope with stressful and worrying situations in their lives then they may need to consider finding another way of dealing with stress or to face the problem and deal with it rather than avoiding it. Alcohol cannot solve these problems and will always cause more problems of its own in terms of health and money etc. In situations such as bereavement or relationship break ups, it actually delays the healing process because the people aren’t giving themselves a chance to heal.
-Boredom
-Habit
Drinking is a bad habit to get into and if people have other things in their lives such as work, family, friends, hobbies, sports and leisure then they will find they will not be bored and they will get into new routines with different habits.
-Because everyone around them is drinking (friends & / or family)
-Its what’s done around here (community or environment)
-Part of the job (chef, bartender, salesman, businessman)
-Peer pressure – feel they have to
-Its cool
-Its grown up
I STIL SAY A BIG NO-NO to BEER
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