Is it normal to have big depressions after a long night having drinks?

Dear Willy, alcohol can be a depressant in itself.  Most of us will know Gin as the most well known spirit for that.  Using drink to forget our problems/depression or whatever is bothering us will lead to us feeling not only mentally worse when the effect wears off and we feel we need another drink but also physically with a hangover and the other nasty side-effects of too much alcohol.

Depression often goes hand in hand with the use of abusive substances, eating disorders and other addictions or addictive behaviour.

Many people ‘self-medicate’ with alcohol, food, drugs, shopping or sex as they feel that these things make them feel better or ease their mental pain – for a short time anyway. However these ‘drugs’ give very short-term feelings of euphoria and inevitably make the depression worse. They are always followed by a terrible crash and the need for another ‘fix’ and yet another. This vicious circle only serves to deepen the depression. 

Often people who use alcohol to ease their pain and unhappiness are labelled ‘Alcoholics’ and people who
take drugs to ease their pain are labelled ‘Drug Addicts’ and people who overeat are labelled as ‘fat’ and judged
as not taking care of themselves, and sexaholics are often talked about as being ‘just lucky’ and shopaholics have lots of nice things. I tried them all when I was feeling down and recommend none of them!  It took me a long time to get help.  I tried to help myself but I didn’t have the tools to do that and turned to what I knew which was food, alcohol and shopping.  All were a slippery slope but I was in denial about my depression for a long time.  It was my husband who dragged me to the doctor.  If I’d gone sooner I feel I could have got better a lot sooner.  Have you spoken or would you like to speak to anyone or your doctor about how you are feeling?

Often we are trying to increase our feel-good hormones of dopamine and serotonin with the alcohol or the food
or the recreational drugs. These other abusive activities seem appealing and comforting at the time but when you weigh up the temporary high against the longer term consequences, they aren’t at all.

That’s a very long answer. I’m very sorry Willy but to summarize, I would say that feeling depressed after heavy drinking could be because of the alcohol and or because you are maybe already down.  I do hope that helps.  Take care Willy.  Thinking of you.  Best wishes, Helen

Normally it’s normal to have depression in party but i don’t overdo it

In my opinion, drinking alcohol too much will make you worst. Just deal with your problems. Life is a constant battle and we all have problems, you are not alone. If you don’t accept your problem then you don’t accept failure. Problems are good for us. Why? because it add meaning into our lives. It make us feel aware of what’s going on in this world.

Dear Iamspartan, your post made me think of what my Grandma used to say that you can never appreciate the good unless you have the bad which I guess is along the lines of what you’re saying.  Thank you for that.  Life can be hard but it can also be wonderful can’t it?  I hope that you are well.  Welcome to the site.  Best wishes, Helen

So! Sorry, if this is my second time on visiting here. I have plenty of things to finished first.

Thanks for welcoming me here! Yah, you got my point. I don’t intend to used alcohol nevertheless I always think of the solutions of the problem and not making it worst. Because when you drink you just forget it a little while then the next thing is that when your free from the spirit of the alcohol you have to think again of your problem.