Can I just add to what Ingrid has said. Alcohol is one thing you
should avoid in all but small quanities, with any depressive illness.

Just after drinking alcohol makes you feel good, relaxed and lifts
your mood. However in reality alcohol is a depressent a few hours
after taking alcohol any depression will become worse.

There are lot of alteratives now on the market a couple examples
similar to wine are shloer and ame, there are other alternatives for
beer etc.

Ian


--- In dysthymia@..., "Ingrid Arntzen" <ICArntzen@a...>
wrote:
>
> Hi folks.
>
> I have to share this with you:
>
> In the last few weeks when the weather has been so hot, I found a very
> nice cooling drink, dry white wine with lots of icelumps. I have been
> rather partial to white wine for many years, but I have not had much in
> the last half a year as I found I did not function very well the
> following day (called a hangover?).
>
> Yesterday I was out for lunch having some white wine. By the evening I
> was feeling rather antisocial, lethargic and remeniscent to my
> depressive days. It felt as if I was poisened, which I was particularly
> with what I had been drinking in the previous weeks.
>
> Today my energy and my happy self is back to my new normal. I have
> looked at the Patient information leaflet of my medication
> (escitalopram) which recommends to avoid alcohol. I shall certanly
> avoid the stuff from now.
>
> Ingrid
>