Alcoholics frequently experience episodes of intense depression and/or severe anxiety. Depressed or anxious alcohol-dependent people often believe that they drink to relieve symptoms of sadness or...
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Approximately 44% were diagnosed as suffering from anxiety disorders and 46% had suffered from an episode of major depression. Data from the self-rating questionnaire were consistent with...
Signs and Symptoms of Alcohol Use Disorder ; According to the DSM-5, in order to be diagnosed with AUD, you must experience at least 2 of the following 11 symptoms within a year:[ ; Excessive drinking includes binge drinking and heavy drinking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines those two types of excessive drinking this way:[ ; Moderate alcohol use is considered no more than one drink a day for women and up to two drinks a day for men. Drinking less is better for healt...
The finding that the onset of social phobia tended to precede that of alcoholism, when taken together with the independence of familial aggregation of social phobia and alcoholism support a self-me...
Matt, a lifelong New Yorker who’s in Alcoholics Anonymous, keeps an eye peeled for personal anniversaries. One is set to arrive on May 19. “I will be four years sober then,” he said.
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The relationship between alcohol use and anxiety is complex. From a clinical standpoint, it is clear that psychiatrists caring for anxious patients must be aware of the possibility of secondary alc...
We evaluated the effects of gender and family history for alcoholism on the co-occurrence of anxiety disorders and alcohol disorders ("comorbidity") in a large university student sample (N = 489)....