Alcohol and Depression: How Are They Connected?
A common misconception is that because alcohol is a depressant, it will help you sleep. Initially, alcohol may promote feelings of relaxation that help you feel drowsy and fall asleep faster. It's true that alcohol can, in fact, help calm feelings of anxiety. But once you stop drinking, that anxiety is almost certainly going to return. Here are five ways that drinking too much alcohol can affect your long-term mental and emotional well-being. Alcohol disrupts your sleep Drinking can be harmful to anyone, regardless of their susceptibility to alcohol misuse or dependence. The clamor for Ozempic and other weight loss medications has been driven largely by patients asking their doctors for prescriptions, having heard about it from news articles and pharmaceutical advertisements. “Advertising has contributed to the cultural awareness of…