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/^t/Alcohol drinking helps you retain good mental health as well. Since alcohol works as a stimulant it reduces stress and tensions and gives you new strength to encounter everyday problems. A glass of champagne can simply cheer you up leaving no place for worries. You need not feel guilty for enjoying your drinking since already the Bible encourages you to treat alcohol as a remedy for sorrow: 'Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts'. Furthermore, drinking contributes to your good psychic condition in a way that it increases your self-esteem, makes you more open and friendly and thus facilitates your contact with people. At last, a drink a day produces certain clarity of mind thus stirring your imagination and helping you make right decisions. It is certain then that by cheering you up, helping you maintain friendly relations with people and giving clarity of mind, drinking contributes to your good mental health. Is it not worth reaching for that bracing and arousing liquid then?