The second effects caused by alcoholism are psychological. At the beginning, alcohol makes you feel relaxed, but if you drink it in excess, it increases anxiety and causes depression. It also causes family and legal problems, violence, changes of behavior, suicide among others. Alcohol is very powerful and alters all your normal behaviors. Many people believe that they can handle their drinking and that it won’t affect them at all. For some this may be true, but for others it is a cover up for what can really happen. Since alcohol alters the perception of most people, they make decisions that could change the rest of their lives. One of the most common ones is drinking and driving. Each year numerous amounts of people are killed in drunk driving incidents. This means jail time, fines, suspensions, and even worse, death. The chance that you could take your own life, or someone else’s life on account that you wanted to have a good time is very serious. So always think before you drink and drive.