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Can alcoholism cause mental illness, or is it the other way around?
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Well..: Alcoholism is an addiction, and therefore a mental illness. But alcoholism can exacerbate other psychiatric symptoms from anxiety and depression, or even psychosis, but it wouldn't cause mental illness necessarily.
Answered 8/31/2013
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