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Calm Your ANXIETY, Stop Feeling Triggered & Let Go of STRESS | Ellen Vora on Women of Impact

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Anxiety and Alcoholism

Alcohol has a chemical correlate for why this happens, which is that alcohol washes our brain in a narrow transmitter called gaba. Gaba is critically important to anxiety and it's the one that tells your body, your brain, like everything's ok,. calm down and ah. When we drink alcohol, it rushes our brain and gaba, and that makes us feel relaxed but then suddenly we don't worry about so much. The problem is, our brain doesn't really care whether or not we're relaxed. It's concerned with survival. This is dangerous, is why drunk driving, rightly, we don't have the same judgment. But you're exactly right that it's understandable if

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