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Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 1, 2010, at 18:20:08
I have to say, alcohol causes so much depression in people who do have depression, it's unbearable. I alway's think that a drink is going to help the mood, it does not....maybe the first 15min does but after that is followed by depression that is worse than what it started with.
Just a warning, drink it in social occiations, but it slows down nuerotranmitter firing and causes sorrow. High amounts of alcohol knock you out, leaving you thirsty for water because it dehyrades you, and you find yourself more distress when your passed out on the floor. It's awful. The only time, i've seen alcohol benefit, is after a hard day of work, then usally hard liquour knocks out the stress and then you go to sleep with your face turning red because it brings the blood up to the surface of the skin, just in some people.
It runs in my family, and I know what it does...after guzzingling it down, even wine causes depression, if it's calming or not. I just have to avoid it, I hate the way it makes me feel, lousy.
Just keep this a note here.
rj
Posted by manic666 on February 2, 2010, at 13:07:11
In reply to Alcohol, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 1, 2010, at 18:20:08
ALCOHOL / you are slowing down a brain thats aready on its knee,s thats why the doc gives you antidepressants an not a bottle of whiskey?????????
Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 2, 2010, at 13:15:01
In reply to Re: Alcohol, posted by manic666 on February 2, 2010, at 13:07:11
no no no no....
I've just had drinks, like wine or something, about 2-3 glasses, and it just depresses me. There's some people that I know that wine just "calms" them, it usally depresses me. That's why...alcohol just got it's rep for doing that. I hate the way it makes me feel.
I just put this up for people to read because of the warnings that it can cause depression in depressed patients already.
Thanks
Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 2, 2010, at 13:21:30
In reply to Alcohol, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 1, 2010, at 18:20:08
I put it up on the boards for info wise, to warn. I've drank "liquor" straight, and I've realized it has diffrent effect's at diffrent times, during the day when nothing is going on, it WILL depress you. That's why it's a depressant. Yet I have realized after a long day's work, it will cause some stimulantion, yet it does rot the brain....
You know, why arent benzodiapines as "bad" as rep as alcohol? I know barbiturates are because they have caused death in those who abused it, or didnt know a dose would put them to sleep for good.
that video on the social board show's how much pain people are in when they do use alcohol but it also refer's to other external pain's in life, and internal mixed together.
Posted by gman22 on February 2, 2010, at 18:42:37
In reply to Alcohol, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 1, 2010, at 18:20:08
I've found that alcohol almost invariably makes me feel better when i am in remission. When depressed it makes me feel horrible. I've only had a few severe depressive episodes (3 in 45 years, all of them less than 6 months duration).
William Styron, the great author, wrote the exact same thing in his memoir of depression "Darkness Visible". Alcohol actually repulsed him during his psychotic depression, even though he loved to drink during the rest of his life.
Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 2, 2010, at 20:31:10
In reply to Re: Alcohol, posted by gman22 on February 2, 2010, at 18:42:37
Darkness Visable...I'll have to look check that out.
Alcohol just has diffrent effect's at diffrent times when you drink it. But most of the time with me, it depresses me during depression because it "slows" transmission of nuerotransmitter's, yet other times it activates me, but that's usally only during the first 15min of the "buzz" then the "sedation" is next after that.
Posted by manic666 on February 3, 2010, at 5:29:48
In reply to Re: Alcohol -gman, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on February 2, 2010, at 20:31:10
you no before meds an in a deep depression an no way out.i used to drink till hammered to near melt down ,just for that 1 hour out of the sh*t. it gave you that , then 3 hours sleep .but then 3times worse than you were. but you needed the hour to be alive. just me that was my way.but a flat line put pay to that experiment.
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