Along with the extreme physical dangers that binge drinking presents, there is also a devastating amount of issues that can affect your mental health, including different ways that alcohol addiction and dependency can begin playing an unhealthy role in your everyday life. Consuming large amounts of alcohol will cause problems regardless of your age, but there can be more at risk for teenagers and young adults. These individuals are at a stage in their life where they are still growing and progressing as human beings. As your brain is still developing, binge drinking can stunt the growth and progression of your brain. Certain skills, memory, thought processing, and other functions requiring the use of your brain can become impaired and produce long-term damage and affects. Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia are all mental health disorders that that can amass from alcohol problems. A statistic on young adult’s states that approximately 42% of those aged between 18 to 25 admit to binge drinking once a month ("Teenage Drinking" 6). This could be the start for many of a dangerous addiction that is not easily reversible. The most severe form of problem drinking is alcoholism, which is the dependence of alcohol to function or feeling physically compelled to drink ("Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse" 1). The abuse of alcohol and the misuses of it like binge drinking, may eventually lead to an individual becoming an alcoholic. Although many can admit that they binge drink and do so quite often, some fail to realize or choose not to believe that they are becoming addicted or must rely on alcohol to have fun or
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