# I had a very bad experience with alcohol **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-very-bad-experience-with-alcohol/423669 "2007-10-23T05:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cattitude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Cattitude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cattitude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-very-bad-experience-with-alcohol/423669/21 "2007-10-23T20:18:15Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] I am not a psychiatrist. I wouldn’t recommend the Xanax/alcohol combination, Even though you missed a dose, you’re taking XR, which eliminates more slowly; in addition, benzos are cross-tolerant with alcohol and a) feed the same addiction; b) may cause a more extreme intoxication. [/QUOTE] I agree. Even 1-2 drinks have the potential to increase the efeects of the Xanax XR and make you less likely to turn down additional drinks :dubious: . I’ve been clinically depressed in the past and currently in therapy now. I’ve also abused both booze and pills/drugs. Be careful with depression and alcohol. Of course you (OP) know your own body best but be careful all the same. You may have one drink a hundred times and nothing happens, then one day it just doesn’t metabolize properly or your chemistry changes. Who knows what can happen? Isn’t it better to be safe? ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-very-bad-experience-with-alcohol/423669/22 "2007-10-23T21:21:12Z")
Xanax, Zoloft and beer, huh? Is that clinically safer than, say, LSD? 'Cuz I haven’t heard of a trip like that since Scabby Alice dropped two hits of Monterey Purple in '67 and tried to carpet-bomb Jimi Hendrix. Welcome back to this side. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-very-bad-experience-with-alcohol/423669/23 "2007-10-24T04:27:20Z")
Stop being so hard on **Argent Towers**. He doesn’t have a problem - he’s just a dude who went out for drinks with some friends, drank a bit too much, and felt weird the next day because he didn’t take his meds, and had a bit of a hangover. Big deal. He realizes the potential for a bad outcome and isn’t going to do it again. He doesn’t need to be rushed straight to the psychiatric ward, people. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-very-bad-experience-with-alcohol/423669/24 "2007-10-24T05:22:51Z")
Thank you. For God’s sake…I appreciate the good intentions but you guys aren’t my psychiatrist. My psychiatrist (whom I met with this morning, by the way) assured me that one or two drinks would be fine. And this corroborates perfectly with my own experiences, as I have said, what, 200 times already. If anything, I posted the OP to share my weird dream and to demonstrate that I had learned a lesson about monkeying with my brain chemistry. I’ll be fine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-very-bad-experience-with-alcohol/423669.md?page=1)