Mental Illness and Substance Abuse?
Question by bodollar: mental illness and substance abuse?
How is substance abuse a mental illness?
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Answer by Joni
Many people that are mentally ill self medicate with alcohol and/or other drugs. Mentally ill people are also more prone to addiction than people that are not mentally ill.
Answer by jb
It’s considered abnormal psychology, I believe. Most mentally stable people do not self-harm. People that abuse substances are often self-destructive, suffer compulsive thinking, among other things.
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