It can be like this even when you are 18

  • ULS@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    What do you mean… It’s literally how it works? Alcohol suppresses your neurotransmitters from firing at a regular rate. Thus causing depression. How it effects your gaba receptors I believe is what causes the i-can-do-anything happy effect.

    For me if I stay drinking I keep the energy and false happiness but that wears off faster than the affect it has on neurotransmitters.

    I’m more normal and function when I drink and it gives me energy because usually my anxiety or BPD is so draining I assume. I pass as a normal person lol. But shortly after stopping the depression is felt.

    …iirc… Just what I gathered from psychology class and personal life.

    • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      I’m not aware of the supression of neurotransmission directly resulting in depression. I know alcohol does worsen depression, but I don’t think that’s a result of it being a depressant.

      Here’s an article that seems to agree with me.