Posted by utopizen on November 18, 2002, at 19:24:44
In reply to Re: Alcohol substitute - what's best? » oracle, posted by Alara on November 18, 2002, at 18:39:31
On my dorm's hallway, there's a sign that says "drinking alcohol to avoid anxiety is the first sign of alcoholism."
I'm reading that a year after seeking treatment for my anxiety, so it's obvious to my now. But I wish someone posted that in my high school or something, before I started messing around with alcohol. Sadly, after the dozens of organized and well-funded lectures my high school had for alcohol prevention, not a single time was the word "psychiatrist", "psychologist", "depression", "mental health", or "anxiety" ever mentioned.
And this comes from one of the three high schools in the country to participate in the "controversial" National Depression Screening Day in 2000! (Controversial because the scientologists tried to get people into the idea that it was to promote Prozac, when it wasn't, and that talking about depression spurs sucidal idealation, which it also doesn't).
So even though it was forward-thinking with mental health, it never connected the two-- substance abuse and mental health. Sad.
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