| The world is not willing to give its inhabitants | | | | Long-term alcohol abuse will make a person |
| constant rainbows-and-butterflies situations. To even | | | | conducive to playing host to not only anxiety but also |
| out the equation probably, it also always allows | | | | a lot of complications. |
| people to feel how life is when the rain pours. So, as | | | | Recent findings assert that alcohol abuse increases |
| humans have gotten used to this forever display of | | | | risks of anxiety in a person because alcohol affects |
| the world gives and the world takes, most people | | | | the neurotransmitter GABA-benzodiazepine (or |
| live warily ~ suspicious of the blessings they are | | | | GBzR). And if long-term alcohol use is suddenly |
| receiving and expectant of trouble around the corner. | | | | discontinued, withdrawal symptoms that include |
| To reckon with these mixed emotions, many swear | | | | anxiety will manifest, at a level that is yet |
| by alcohol. Though anxiety is a normal human | | | | unexperienced by the person. General anxiety and |
| emotion, using alcohol abuse to combat it will not | | | | panic attacks would succeed a heavy drinking period, |
| result to normal consequences. | | | | as well. |
| An emotion centered either on an unfathomable | | | | And it's common knowledge that alcohol and anxiety |
| reason or a feeling that disaster will come calling is | | | | are part and parcel of the destructive process that |
| called anxiety. Because many consider it as a product | | | | alcohol can happen in a person. Alcohol addiction |
| of a person's own unpositive mindset, people try to | | | | contributes to social problems, work-related |
| shrug it off or shake it off. Alcohol becomes the | | | | dilemmas, money issues, domestic complications, |
| medium that people use to escape from anxiety. And | | | | relationship matters and hard personal blunders. If |
| that, in itself, is something that is more than just | | | | you're an anxiety-feeling individual, you obviously don't |
| alarming. | | | | need the further emotional rollercoasters that alcohol |
| Alcohol and anxiety co-exist, as far as some people | | | | abuse will give you. |
| are concerned, because in the short-term, alcohol can | | | | True, the world can get too much for a person to |
| reduce a person's anxiety, letting the person feel | | | | handle on his/her own. But handling anxiety through |
| relaxed and worry-free. And the inhibitory capability | | | | alcohol abuse will never cap the matter properly. |
| of the receptor Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) | | | | Before the whole thing's over, you'd be exposed to |
| that disables a person's ability to feel anxious is also | | | | things that you didn't know can make anxiety an |
| reinforced by alcohol. But that is, in the short-term. | | | | insignificant, unimportant thing. |