I have an uncle who is an alcoholic. His condition is so severe that even sending him to a rehabilitation center did not work. One day someone suggested my aunt take my uncle to a psychiatrist for counseling so that psychiatrist could convince him to give up alcohol. Interestingly, the psychiatrist told my aunt that my uncle's alcoholism was related to depression. After treating depression with medication, my uncle stopped drinking.
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Depression and Alcoholism
- Thread starter Nomad
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That's really interesting. So there's no genetic play at all in that instance? My father's family is genetically predisposed to having addictions and addiction to alcohol is one of those things. Multiple family members were alcoholics and died from liver failure because of it. I wonder though if any of them were depressed because it's not something the family would ever speak of.
I had an auntie myself, it was my dad's sister, she, unfortunately, passed away last year from cancer but she became an alcoholic for years and I remember her ending up in the hospital a lot from it, seems it was depression. She managed to get help but she always had an issue even after getting support which was a shame.
I had a problem like that when I was in my 20s. I used to be a weekend warrior getting drunk every weekend. But I got meds and grew out of it.