Why Drinking Alcohol Helps?! Identifying the Benefits
Why drinking alcohol helps? 🍺 Drinking “helps” in the sense of helping the nervous system.
🥃 Alcohol may temporarily reduce anxiety/stress (sympathetic activation)
And create a sense of calm/numbness (mimicking ventral Vagal state)
📺 Similarly, eating comfort food, scrolling social media, or binge-watching shows can…
Distract and temporarily soothe the nervous system
😮💨 These behaviors do not address the underlying dysregulation
They only provide short-term coping, short-term relief
Reliance on these behaviors lead to more dysregulation
🔆 In essence these behaviors are attempts by the nervous system to find balance and regulation in the face of stress or trauma
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