Any good books on alcoholism and depression? (Answers: 5) (Comments: 0)

My family needs to understand alcoholism and depression? Do you have any good book recommendations? Please do not tell me to google alcoholism or check out the AA book or the bible. Thanks

How could a same gene be linked to alcoholism and depression? (Answers: 2) (Comments: 0)

Voting Question: Is there such a place where alcoholism and depression can be treated? Like rehab that also battles depression? (Answers: 4) (Comments: 0)

Anyone here suffer from alcoholism and depression? (Answers: 5) (Comments: 0)

I haven't had a drink in 17 days. I was just put back on Zoloft. I have been battling this thing for years, but feel that this is truly the turning point for me. Anyone else in recovery? Let's talk... Jack

Question about alcoholism and depression...? (Answers: 12) (Comments: 0)

If someone has alcoholism, can they be given a second diagnosis of depression? Or is it generally assumed that the alcohol causes the depression? I'm leaning towards two separate diagnoses, because they depression seems to have run in the family, alcoholism not so much. (I'm not actually diagnosing someone...it's for a project... XD If I were a doctor I'd hope I wouldn't' have to come on Yahoo Answers for these kinds of questions...) Let's say I was giving a diagnosis for a psychological disorder... Would saying: "He suffers from alcohol abuse " be correct?

Please help!!! Family alcoholism and depression? (Answers: 3) (Comments: 0)

My mum was a severe alcoholic which devestated and ripped the family apart until she ran off with another much older man. This along with other things that are hard to mention caused me to develop severe depression, anxiety and self harm which I am now recieving councilling for. My dad was also affected and already depressed he recently told me he's going to stop drinking...on asking why he told me that he wakes up feeling edgy and is fine when he has a drink but so far continues to drink and tonight I swear he was tipsy. Please help me, I'm desperate to stop this getting out of hand, alcohol has ruined my life, I'm really scared. When I was 12 I noticed my mum drinking excessivly and throughout the years until I turned 16 at the end of last year (just before she left), I protected her...hid it from my dad as he worked away and he and my mum didn't get on and neither did we. i feel never ending guilt because I feel I could have stopped it sooner. Now I have a new chance, I need to protect my wee sister from getting hurt as i did all I could to protect her last time with my mum. How do I stop this? Should I tell my councillor? Please help I am extremely suicidal just now and I don't know if I can handle this. Its not bad yet but what if it becomes bad please please help!! xxx

I suffer from Alcoholism and Depression and do not know what to do.? (Answers: 4) (Comments: 0)

I feel that I should probably give you some background before I jump right into the basic nature of my question. I have on several occasions taking anti-phycotics, and anti-depressant drugs, with little to no effect. I have spent the better part of 5 years of my life in some sort of theropy. Which is actually the reason I am writing this question. I am an emotionally devoid person, meaning I spend the majority of my day just walking through wishing, begging for myself to feel any sort of emotion. I have broken up with amazing women because the brief hour or two of pain from a break up was the only emotion I would feel for several weeks. Because of my inability to feel anything I seek out emotionally stimulating situations or items. I have found through massive experimentation with drugs, sex, failure, pain, and even hurting myself in serious ways emotionally that the only thing that can really get me to have a serious emotion is drinking by myself. For this reason I spend a lot of my time looking for times that I can be by myself and drink. The major problem with drinking by myself is the fact that I spend the entire time in a depressed state. I can not a long life without feeling emotions and just doing what I need to do, but I am truly afraid that if I spend any more time drinking by myself I will not be able to control my selfish thoughts of doing something bad. Please anyone help me, I am on the internet now because honestly I know no where else anymore. I realise I do have a problem with drinking, but just the last month I went 24 days without having a single drink. My problem is I can not feel right or in the matter anything without something causing me to have feelings. In reality I usually drink not to get drunk but to prevent me from hurting other people. I am actually working on my third degree and my second major. I am only 24 in one week, so I am very active within my little academic world. I also work 40-60 hours a week, am running a fraternity to make sure that pervious problems do not close it down, and have a very active social life. I am usually active from 6am to 12:30am everyday. I have also spent a lot of time and money on help but as of yet I have not found anything yet

Why is it that politicians are such poor students of history, the Copenhagen treaty has been tried before? (Answers: 5) (Comments: 0)

When the US felt sorry for the Indian nations it destroyed, it started giving free money to these nations, Native Americans, to try to "fix" the problem it created. Guess what, free money only destroyed the dignity of these people, causing severe alcoholism and depression; just as transferring the wealth of the wealthy nations to the poor will do to the poor nations of the world. Wealth must be earned not given for the inheritor to value it's worth. I don't understand how neither Dawei nor Dana was able to address the fulcrum of the question. You two are both so caught up in your little world that you didn't seem to understand the main objection; the fact that one of the main objectives of the Copenhagen Treaty is to redistribute wealth from the richer nations to the poorer nations, supposedly a tax for the damage the rich nations have caused the world. This will due one of two things line dictators pockets and/or destroy the dignity of the poorer inhabitants of the world. I guess alcoholism and depression are an acceptable consequence to the poor, for Dana to give himself a"feel good" pat on the back for being such a great human being.