Most people would take alcohol to avoid feeling a painful emotion or feeling. A divorce, trauma, job loss or any other stressful event in life would make people to seek relief in alcohol. Alcohol definitely has a sedative effect on the human brain, but it is only with one or two glasses of alcohol and not with severe alcoholism and continuous addiction to alcohol. One or two glasses of beer will make your brain sedative and calm, relieving stress to some extent in the process.
Recent scientific studies have revealed a direct link between alcoholism and depression. The biggest question facing the scientific community is to find whether alcoholism causes depression or whether depressed people are consuming more alcohol to find some relief in their depressed state. There are no concrete findings still, to validate one over the other. The statistics reveal that more than 35% of the depressed people are also having an alcohol addiction issue.
Studies conducted in many depression cases show that depression was to occur first and then the person would find consolation in alcohol, in order to feel a bit of relief. This study also revealed that children who were depressed during their childhood years would most probably develop alcohol addiction issues once they reach adulthood. Women with depression are found to be addicted to alcohol, twice as much as men.
The real causes for the connection between depression and alcoholism is not found as yet. But, scientists suspect that it could be due to environmental factors and also to some extent: human genes. A variant of the CHRM2 gene is said to be behind the never-ending cycle of alcoholism and depression. This condition usually runs in the family. Also, a person's social condition and home environment could be another factor that would decide, if he or she would develop alcoholism and depression together. Anyway, depression and alcoholism are a never-ending cycle and staying away from both would be best for your health and well being.
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