Feeling sad after drinking heavily for a day or two
 

Over my college years I noticed this strange phenomenon. I would go out drinking often on weekends. Then on the following Sunday I would feel depressed. This could be explained that I was just sad cause the party was over but it seems to always follow heavy drinking. Also it wasnt strictly on the weekends if I happened to drink heavily mid week it would happen then too.

I have begun to wonder if this might be a chemical effect from the drug on my brain. I havent found any research that supports this though on google. Has anyone else had a similar experience to this?

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You didn't know alcohol was a depressant?

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I get this too, once in a great while, its kind of a nice sad though, not a real one, I also get really punch drunk happy moreso. If I could have a constant punch drunk happy hangover, id be the funniest person alive, as it puts me on my game.

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You didn't know alcohol was a depressant?

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I did. But what does that mean? I thought it was an acute affect that meant your brain waves were slowed down while you were drinking. I am talking about a "delayed after effect."

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heh, I have exactly the opposite. I'm immensely happy to get up at 12 and reminisce about the night we just had with roommates and then go get breakfast. And having nothing to do on Sundays never hurts.

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The brain can affect the body and the body can affect the brain. Alcohol harms your body, in turn negatively affecting your brain. I think it's that simple. Though, these are really just an amateur's conjectures.

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just smoke a joint. it'll all be okay.

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heh, I have exactly the opposite. I'm immensely happy to get up at 12 and reminisce about the night we just had with roommates and then go get breakfast. And having nothing to do on Sundays never hurts.

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this is my favorite thing in the world.

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heh, I have exactly the opposite. I'm immensely happy to get up at 12 and reminisce about the night we just had with roommates and then go get breakfast. And having nothing to do on Sundays never hurts.

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this is my favorite thing in the world.

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I think OP means after a more extended period of heavy drinking, not just a friday night. When I feel that way I decide it's because I realize just how big of a waste I've become when I do nothing but drink heavily.

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I get this too, once in a great while, its kind of a nice sad though, not a real one, I also get really punch drunk happy moreso. If I could have a constant punch drunk happy hangover, id be the funniest person alive, as it puts me on my game.

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Funny. I'm the same way. After a night or two of heavy drinking, i'm put in an odd state that is a combination of meloncholy/witty/laid-back/retrospective. And the result is that i get nonchalantly flirty as hell and just on point with gaming the female population. I also get up extremely early, with no fuss.

My theory is that you're still feeling the effects of the alcohol, but combined with a certain distance from the last act and some sleep in between, so you're thrown off your balance and you're in a kinda conscious limbo.

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I get this too, once in a great while, its kind of a nice sad though, not a real one, I also get really punch drunk happy moreso. If I could have a constant punch drunk happy hangover, id be the funniest person alive, as it puts me on my game.

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Funny. I'm the same way. After a night or two of heavy drinking, i'm put in an odd state that is a combination of meloncholy/witty/laid-back/retrospective. And the result is that i get nonchalantly flirty as hell and just on point with gaming the female population. I also get up extremely early, with no fuss.

My theory is that you're still feeling the effects of the alcohol, but combined with a certain distance from the last act and some sleep in between, so you're thrown off your balance and you're in a kinda conscious limbo.

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zen-like is the best way to describe it, if I could bottle that though, Id be a billionaire.

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Sometimes I just feel completely mentally drained the next day. Slowed reaction time, not creative, little to no conversational skills. Usually I fix this by having a beer.

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I've noticed this too.

My initial solution was to just eliminate the days that I didn't drink, thereby creating a constant cycle of drunkeness. This worked wonderfully until I decided that the drinking was bad for my health.

I slowed down the drinking, got depressed and found myself near suicidal.

moral: drink to save your life.

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Over my college years I noticed this strange phenomenon. I would go out drinking often on weekends. Then on the following Sunday I would feel depressed. This could be explained that I was just sad cause the party was over but it seems to always follow heavy drinking. Also it wasnt strictly on the weekends if I happened to drink heavily mid week it would happen then too.

I have begun to wonder if this might be a chemical effect from the drug on my brain. I havent found any research that supports this though on google. Has anyone else had a similar experience to this?

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I have this happen from time to time, but moreso as I get older. It sucks.

DN

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Totally get this too. Also I have Social anxiety dissorder, so, of course, I self medicate with teh alkey. Then the day after I find myself super antisocial, I hate to even go downstairs and have a cig (in a dorm) cause I might have to talk to people. I suck......

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I get the whole depression too very often, and I'm a bit anti-social as well. Correlation? Let's increase the sample size...

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so sucking down depressants makes you depressed?... what crap.

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Maybe you are just depressed. Go to a shrink.

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I know this sounds crazy but don't drink hardcore for days on end. If you go hard one night take it a little easy next night. I used to have the same problem but I never did anything about it lol.

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Yes I also get this and have termed it the beer blues. Its quite common in my experience

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Friday night I drank, but I don't remember drinking very much, but soemthign strange happened and I blacked out. Apparently I was completely cohesive and making perfect sense, not stumbling or doing all the things 'black out drunk' people do.

The next day I was told of some of my adventures, but I didn't recall many of them.

On sunday, I was just stupid. I tried to call my girlfriend, I couldn't remember her phone number, I tried dialing like 3 different numbers, and ended up dialing my own. I can remember it perfectly fine now, but sunday i was having a heavy dose of stupid.

I was also completely out of it well into monday.

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Blinden, this is pretty standard after a blackout night imo

OP, I find that the day after whatever emotions I'm having just become stronger. If I'm with a few good friends talking about what happened the night before I have the same thing happen that guids described of being sorta on your game and laughing a lot. If things didn't go so well the night before, or if I have a lot on my mind it can strengthen that too.

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I think it is a combination of things:

You have to go to work/school tomorrow.
Friday is 5 days away.
You feel guilty about treating your body like [censored]/acting like an idiot/not being productive at all for 2 days etc.