You may be using alcohol or drugs to self-medicate an underlying mental illness. Some people have a “dual diagnosis” of mental illness and addiction; often, addiction begins as a means to self-medicate. You may have struggled with anxiety and found that alcohol “calms your nerves.” You might have had difficulty staying awake during the day […]
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There is a large overlap between addiction and depression. As many as a third of people with depression have a substance use disorder. Many people with depression use substances to relieve their symptoms but the causality goes the other way as well. Substance use can also lead to depression or make pre-existing depression worse by […]