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It's clinically established that alcoholism leads to depression. Depression is a continuous feeling of despair, gloom and/ or grief. It causes you to take a miserable outlook on your life. When someone suffers from depression, he or she can't be easy with life in general. This might have some subsequent chain reactions. For instance, fatigue is the first consequence. In most of cases, this is followed by anxiety. People suffering from depression also suffer from severe anxiety. Contrary to mainstream belief, alcohol is one of the more known depressants. It'll be safe to say that people already suffering from depression should not even drink. That applies to those who suffer from manic depressions. Depression resulting from too much alcohol intake normally starts with physical manifestations. Alcohol lowers the level of serotonin as well as norepinephrine in the brain. Those chemicals are known to be responsible for supplying your brain with good feelings. To deal with such situations, certain anti-depressant medications can be used. Following long years of drinking records, alcohol can get those brain chemicals dropping significantly. Sometimes, it these anti-depressants do not work as quickly as we want them to. To get those levels back to normal, it may take time depending on the person's metabolism. Alcohol is also known to temporarily nullify the impacts of the stress hormones. That is the reason people keep feeling even worse following a drink. Viewing this from a different angle, alcohol can depress the nervous system as well as the brain. A research has been carried out on people who are in the habit of taking just one drink per day. Not taking alcohol after sticking to this 'one-drink' routine for three months, their depression situation improved. If improvements regarding depressions are so obvious with the mild drinkers, imagine the potential improvements with alcoholics. Alcohol is known to wipe out vitamins off the body following drinking sessions. This is coupled with deficiency of folic acid that results in wearing off the brain also known as dementia. This deficiency is also a contributor to depressions. So you can say that alcoholism, depression and physical decay are interrelated.
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