What Mental Disorder Is Most Commonly Self Diagnosed With Alcohol?

Question by the smoken man: What mental disorder is most commonly self diagnosed with alcohol?
Some people are drawn to alcohol for natural reasons. Many are drawn to alcohol, almost naturally because it is medicinal to them. In cases people can both, think better and increase mental capabilities under the influence of alcohol. For example someone that has social anxiety can further succeed in social situations and feel more “normal” under the influence of alcohol, which can cause them to easily be drawn to it as an attempt to self diagnose. Many people legitimately feel they can function better under the influence of alcohol because of something it provides them. Something that achieves their brain’s satisfaction in aiding a natural abnormality or disorder. But, what disorder or abnormality is most common in attempting to self diagnose by comsuming alcohol?

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Answer by little rose
i think youre thinking is faulty. this is bc i am a smoker. and i have thought that smoking helped to awaken my brain, think more clearly, become more social. and when i quit for seven years then i started back up. i was thinking those same things, right that smoking gave me all that. actually it didnt give me anything. it was all in my head.

i dont think drinking is caused by a mental illness. stop looking for labels. whatever the drug is, its there, u use it bc youre friends do. and it feels good. youre body adapts to it.

its not medicine. you know why? i smoke, i feel like that is medicine. but drinking? no way. it makes me sick and feels like posion. it is poison. it kills ppl, kills the liver bc its poison.

its all in our heads. it was just the thing for us there when we are young that helped distract ourselves from our problems. that we had. but if you see for real you dont need it.

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