The Roles of Depression and Anxiety in Binge Drinking
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this week's retrospective episode Vic and Lucy reveal the relationships between their mental health and their over drinking.
For Lucy it was depression brought about by a chronic disease diagnosis whereas for Vic it was the anxiety triggered by recreational drug use.
Whatever it is for you - the importance of mental wellbeing is imperative to getting and staying sober.
We hope that Vic and Lucy's vulnerable, honest and open stories can help you in your sober journeys.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I suffered a lot. I mean, I suffered from clinical depression for about the last five, six years, but on and off, a lot, you know, before that, going back probably about 10, 15 years, but not really identifying what it was. Yeah, I felt |
| 0:22.0 | really depressed. That was caused through a number of reasons, but one of which is having a sort |
| 0:27.5 | of a chronic disease that I struggle with on a daily basis and that sort of is the prognosis |
| 0:35.7 | is it's not going to get any better. So that brought on a depression in me. |
| 0:40.3 | And then I try to deal with that by drinking. Yeah. So obvious lean to, isn't it? Just to take the |
| 0:48.3 | edge off at night and just go, actually, I don't want to think about this anymore. I'm going to |
| 0:52.8 | drink so that I don't have to think about this problem and hopefully drinking will make me feel better. Yeah. And which isn't the case, of course. And also it will make me feel better and, you know, I don't really care about my future because I was thinking it didn't look good. I mean, I don't feel like that now. I've managed to deal with it. When you get quite ill, it's like going through a grieving process of not being able to accept it, fighting it, and then finally accepting it. And then you go through all the stuff. And anyway, I didn't go through it as I should. I drank my way through it. Yeah. And unbeknown to me, although I did know, we all know alcohols are depressant. Yeah. But it made me feel good. I thought maybe they've got it wrong somewhere done like it. |
| 1:29.0 | The only thing that actually makes me feel good is a drink. |
| 1:31.6 | Well, that is really because it makes you forget all of the problems in your life. |
| 1:35.5 | So therefore it feels good. |
| 1:36.8 | At the time. |
| 1:37.3 | At the time, because everything else is gone. |
| 1:39.4 | But then it's doubly worse the next day. |
| 1:42.0 | Which goes on to what I experienced a similar thing, |
| 1:44.9 | which was anxiety. |
| 1:46.1 | I became very, very anxious after drinking due to taking too many recreational drugs in the |
| 1:52.0 | 90s as well. |
| 1:52.9 | I had a bit of a situation then, which led to a lot of anxiety, which resurfaced again |
| 1:59.9 | when I became a parent. So all of these things are all |
| 2:03.5 | personality traits that have developed for certain reasons. It doesn't really matter why you |
| 2:07.5 | have them or why, who you are. They're just things that you are intrinsically as a human |
| 2:13.0 | that definitely relates to how you drink. |
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