Posted by raisinb on February 1, 2009, at 11:25:39
In reply to alcohol, posted by sam K on January 31, 2009, at 20:14:14
This is a big topic for me. For years when I was having a very hard time with depression and anxiety (and therapy) I drank a lot. Every night I had at least two or three drinks and got pretty trashed by myself at least two nights a week. I noticed that after I went on meds and got a lot better, I could enjoy drinking, but didn't need to because I didn't have that horrible anxiety all the time.
Now that I am on 2 different SSRIs I don't drink that much just because the hangovers are a lot worse. I get bad headaches. Also it doesn't seem like drinking works like it used to.
I'm not sure whether drinking a lot made me more depressed or not. There was probably a cyclical thing going on.
I definitely had times when I had trouble controlling my drinking, and I had some very destructive consequences.
When my insomnia isn't under control, I also drink a lot more. I get so tired and panicky and angry when I can't sleep for many nights in a row--and nothing is working--that I get drunk in order to get away from those feelings.
Luckily medication is working fairly well for that now, too.
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