Bipolar Disorder and Alcohol: Effects, Risks, and Management May 29, 2021 – Posted in: Sober Living

This suggests that bipolar patients may use alcohol primarily as a means to medicate their affective symptoms, and if their bipolar symptoms are adequately treated, they are able to stop abusing alcohol. Although this association does not necessarily indicate that alcoholism worsens bipolar symptoms, it does point out the relationship between them. Criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol abuse, on the other hand, do not include the craving and lack of control over drinking that…