They can be caused by the mental side effects of heavy drinking or can be the reason heavy drinking occurs in the first place. Oftentimes a person with a co-occurring disorder such as depression or anxiety will become addicted to alcohol after trying to cope with and self-medicate their symptoms.he effects of alcoholism are not just physical; there are also significant psychological effects, not to mention the effects of alcoholism on family and other relationships. Physical Alcoholism Side Effects.
According to a myth arising later, his mother had dipped the infant Achilles in the river Styx, holding onto him by his heel, and he became invulnerable where the waters touched himâthat is, everywhere except the areas of his heel that were covered by her thumb and forefinger.
In doing this she held him by his heels â¦ and did not dip or wet them after, so that left his heels vulnerable. The story is that he was killed in the siege of Troy by Paris, who shot an an arrow into his heel. Thus an Achilles' heel has come to be a term for a person's principal weakness.