15/10/2023
🥃Alcohol and mental health are closely linked.
How alcohol affects your 🧠
As a depressant, it disrupts the balance of neurotransmitters (chemical messengers) in your brain and affects your feelings, thought processes and behaviour
Alcohol affects the part of the brain that controls inhibition, making you feel relaxed, less anxious, and more confident. The chemical changes in your brain can soon lead to more negative feelings, such as anger, depression or anxiety, regardless of your mood
Alcohol slows down the information process. , making it harder to work out what you’re really feeling and the possible consequences of your actions.
Prolonged 🍺🍺 uses up and reduces the number of neurotransmitters in our brains, but we need a certain level to ward off anxiety and depression. This can make you want to drink more to relieve these difficult feelings – and this could lead to dependence.
How alcohol affects your body 👭👬
Alcohol poisoning could lead to sleep pattern disturbancees, an upset stomach, bloating and migraines. It may make you behave recklessly or aggressively, have an accident or become the victim of violence.😪
Alcohol dependence heightened the risk of serious health conditions, including heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, liver disease and cancer. It can lead to social problems such as relationship break-ups, unemployment, financial difficulties and homelessness.
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