Reply #19: Okey doke. From my perspective:

[Deja Q]

A person so overwrought with depression, or events that would cause depression (such as rejection - typically job loss, relationship problems, self-esteem issues having gone down because of a string of incidents...)

I also believe some minds are more vulnerable than others. Not all people respond to alcohol with a feel-good form. Myself being a case example, alcohol merely elevates my ambient mood. I do not lose any inhibitions at all. Or maybe I have not ingested a sufficient quantity of the alcoholic beverages in question. (at age 16, two long island iced teas was sufficient to make me feel "carefree". Today, two of them do nothing, and I do not drink alcohol very often at all. Nor did I back then either. :shrug: )

Dunno. But alcoholism is much like drugs, television, unsafe sex, politics, you name it. An addiction.