Posted by Krazy Kat on January 24, 2002, at 11:32:22
In reply to For some alcohol is medicine...How to sort it out?, posted by Mr. Scott on January 23, 2002, at 22:48:50
"it’s a bipolar cycle and the drinking is of no consequence and only serves to calm me down. I wonder if I get hypomanic (mentioned I was feeling Real Good last week) and then drink thinking I can get away with it,"
this happened(s) to me. I don't think drinking caused your mental illness, but it does exacerbate it, as you point out.
I haven't found a great answer, yet, myself, except that recently I made myself realize that no matter how helpful my meds are, I'm still going to have problems drinking. I think "alcoholics" just can't process alcohol the way "normal" people do. It's another biologocal thing. All MHO.
- KK
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