Question

how does drug abuse, drinking and smoking impact depression

Answer 1

Depression is a mental disorder characterized by persistent depressed mood.Ut occur as a result if genetic, biochemical, neuroendocrine and social factors.

Smoking habits is started to relieve tension however nicotine increase the anxiety level and leads to depression. The exact mechanism of smoking and depression is unknown. Studies suggested that smoking trigger depression.

People sometimes started drinking to cope with depression. However alcohol simply compound the depression. Many studies revealed that there is significant connection between alcohol abuse and depression. If a person start drinking as a result of depression it can be triggered and the person continue to drinking. There was a link between neurophysiological and metabolic change brought about by alcohol abuse and depression. Therefore alcohol abuse induce depression and depression induce alcohol abuse.

Both alcohol and substance abuse increase the chance of developing social anxiety disorder. Although people believe that these type of habits bring happy and relieve tension but it aggrevate the symptoms of depression.