Alcohol and mental health
Information, Guidance and Advice. Helping Build a Healthier Lifestyle.
How do you use alcohol?
Mental health problems and drinking alcohol often go together. For some people going through a tough time, drinking can be a way to cope. It can work in the short term but…it is only temporary.
Alcohol is a depressant drug that can change the way you think and reduces your ability to deal with difficulties. Alcohol can lower your mood or increase anxiety. If you are given this booklet by a mental health professional you can use it in several ways:
- Use it to see if your drinking is having a negative effect on your mental health
- Find out how much you know or don’t know about alcohol
- Ask yourself, is now a good time to change the way you drink?
- Discover how you can get support to make changes
