Why can't you drink well taking anti-depressants ?

Answer:
My goodness you've been given some silly answers. I was on anti depressants for ten years. Alcohol, as one of your more sensible respondents said, is a depressant and once the 'high' wears off after a few drinks, usually the feelings of depression are more acute and difficult to deal with.
Many people who take Zoloft, Prozac, and other depression-related medications drink light to moderate amounts of alcohol without serious side effects, or any effects at all. However, it's important to know what the possible interactions may be so that you can be on the lookout. When there is a noticeable reaction from mixing alcohol with anti-depressants, it's often an amplified response to the alcohol, i.e., one drink may end up feeling like two. If you usually feel tired, or even a bit depressed, after drinking, then you might feel even more so if you're on anti-depressants. They affect your brain's ability to absorb serotonin, which acts as a neurotransmitter, transmitting nerve impulses between nerve cells and affecting mood. Alcohol also affects serotonin levels in your brain by altering your brain's production of it. That's why using the two together could produce unexpected and unwanted emotions.
Similarly, the shaky motor skills and slower reaction time common for alcohol users may get even shakier when anti-depressants are present 鈥?these responses can occur suddenly and unexpectedly. Zoloft, and the other anti-depressants like it, can also produce sedative effects; since alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, lowered heart rate and blood pressure changes are possible.

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Because then the medication won't work.

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Because your tolerance to alcohol goes waaaay down, and a drink or two will get you really drunk, as well, alcohol is a depressant, and the slight "down" feeling you usually feel after a night of drinking will be amplified.

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i don't know but i do. doesn't affect me at all.

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increase heart rate.makes you restless ormake you more tired. high blood presure. the alcohol could revers the afect of the med. you are taking. and or kill you.

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Because alcohol is a depressant and it would work against taking the anti-depressant. If you want to start feeling better take the time you are on this medication to get things done that you never find time to do. Clean out a closet, get a bag of clothes ready for Goodwill, help a neighbor, and when you get your mind off yourself..you will find that you ARE feeling better. Good luck.

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The anti-depressants affect the respirtory system, and alcohol does too. Combining the two depressents together, can cause you to have shallow weak breathing.

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Because if I'm right alcohol is a depressant besides that if you have stuff going on maybe alcohol is not the best for you...find other ways to get happy. Maybe its the mixture of chemicals too

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