Please answer if you are familiar with alcoholism.?!
Question:
Please answer if you are familiar with alcoholism.?
is it possible for alcoholics to be hypochondriacs? and/or compulsive liars?
i have known someone for a long time and she periodically comes up with serious illnesses that never materialize! also over time she will lie about something and a while later forget she said it or repeat the same lie with different details
i don't live in the same city or country as her so it's easy for her to get away with what she tells me. i have also known her for a long time, so i know when what she is saying is a lie.
anyone have any information or personal experiences that could help me make sense of this?
Answers:
Definetely!!!Acoholism is caused by depression and if you know about depression then that comes along with anxiety diorders. People with depression/anxiety often feel they are going to die for various reasons. Most of the time they think they are having a heart attack with never actually manifests and a lot of times they think they have some kind of chronic illness. People with generalized anxiety disorder just worry for absolutely no reason may it be about health, work, family or bills. They have unfounded worries that stem from depression!!!
Depresson = anxiety disorder= alcoholism
It may not exactly go in that order but they all go hand in hand!! You have to be a depressed person to become an alcoholic, but you don't have to be an acoholic to be depressed if you catch what I'm saying. Not all people with depression are addicts, but EVERY addict has depression.
As far as flat out in your face bold lies, that has to do with her self esteem. Maybe she just wants someone to care or have some empathy towards her or maybe she wants you to see her in a different light. If she is just blatently lieing to you, that is not alcoholism. That would come from depression/ self esteem.
If she TRULY BELIEVES herself that something is always wrong with her medically (hypocondract), please encourage her to get on anti-depressants because nobody deserves to live in constant fear!!!!
SHE'S DEPRESSED!!