Alcohol changes the dp/dr into an alcohol state, which of course is an altered state as well. But I still ask, and I guess I am asking researchers here, why booze works for many here moreso, if not head and shoulders above, than any antidepressant or anxiolytic. Do you get drunk with friends, laugh and have a great time and don't feel like crap about yourself the next day? That definitely doesn't sound like a problem at all. Do you NEED it, do it excessively and then feel like crap the next day? Over and over again, broken record? Sounds like a problem. Just examine your own drinking/drugging behavior and you'll get an idea of where you are at with it. My problems were basically untreatable because of my continuous substance abuse. I treated my DP/DR anxiety depression for years with drugs and alcohol and the end result was that it left me a complete mess physically, psychologically and emotionally. If we transfer that compulsiveness to drink or drugs, the result can be quite disastrous. The problem with a lot of us is the compulsive aspect of our illness. If we frequently drink alone, and its more like 5 or 6 drinks. There's plenty of people on this site that probably have a drink or two a day and get drunk only when they're out with friends. Actually we have two problems, DP/DR and the early progressive stages of alcoholism. If we need to drink to feel "OK," if we drink excessively every day, if we drink alone, or in other words totally CRAVE it, then we have a problem. REAL concern is that most normally adjusted folk drink when they want to, and then they forget about it, and then they run into a bunch of friends and they drink again, and then forget about it again Its worked often beautifully for us as it has for much of humanity for thousands of years. I think the real concern is how we use alcohol to feel better, to change our mood.
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