if alcohol is a depressant?

Question

why do i feel good when i drink the amber nectar

Answer 1

You're not drinking enough. Keep on going until you rech the stage when you start complaing about the girl who left you when you were 6 for the boy who could fart the theme tune to swap shop and then you will find the depressive qualities of alcohol.

Answer 2

Alcohol is sneaky. It depresses the performance of your central nervous system, messes up your feedback systems, and depresses the functions of your frontal lobes. What this adds up to is that your judgement is impaired so that while you are shagging the creep you'd run a mile from if your brain is functioning even half properly and it feels like A REALLY GOOD IDEA not to use a condom because only the boring people do that. The shameful part is you even enjoy yourself. Till you remember what you did the next day and have to spend the next few days dodging the creep who thinks you are now best friends and is hoping for a repeat match.
Then two weeks later you discover he (or she) has gifted you a penicillin resistant Sexually Transmitted Disease, which takes ages to clear up. If you are lucky you realise you have been infected and don't find out years later when it has done something highly unpleasant and maybe irreversible to your insides.

Of course, the news is so depressing you just have to have a drink. Which is why alcohol is sneaky.

Answer 3

As the wife of a recovering alcoholic, I've dedicated much time to researching the affects of alcohol on the body. Alcohol enhances the brains receptors of inhibition and at the same time reduces the excitetory effects of glutamate. These actions are the main reason alcohol is considered to be a depressant.

However, the effects of alcohol can differ for each individual. For some, having one drink will work as a depressant and ill temperament, while for another having many drinks will work as a stimulant and keep the "party animal" awake all night.

To find more FACTS about alcohol use, you can check the sources below.

Answer 4

Hi there! Yes, alcohol can be a depressant, if you drink on a daily basis.

At low doses (1-2units), Alcohol can briefly produce a pleasant and relaxed state of mind and a euphoric effect that makes the individual more confident, more social and jovial.

However, even small amounts of alcohol (1-5units) produces poor coordination, slowed reaction times and temporary memory loss.

When alcohol becomes a real problem by heavy drinking or daily drinking; the breathing centre in the brain can be affected leading to many more serious symptoms, such as Depression.

This is characterised by: fatigue, disturbed sleep, early morning waking, poor energy levels, poor appetite and dehydration leading to headaches.

Also, heavy drinking can cause liver and stomach damage, eventually leading to cancer and even death.

I hope this helped!

Answer 5

It is a depressant, but it does make most folks feel good because it removes inhibitions. Whit those inhibitions gone you usually feel free, which is quite pleasant.

On the other hand depressed fellows will feel even lower then they after the first few moments on alcohol.

Furthermore I'd recommend you take special attention to how you feel when the effects are about to fade away. That feeling, you know the one where you're a bit tiered and have less energy? Well for most people that's the depressing effect.

Answer 6

I don't know about amber nectar but most beer has hops as an ingredient. Hops is a sedative muscle relaxant and it also lowers blood pressure. In the short term beer will make you feel relaxed happy and generally good. Hard liquor does not contain hops
so its affects are stimulating in the short term in the long term beer makes you more tired than vodka per say but both can get you drunk and hungover.

Answer 7

Because it's not initially a depressant. It first acts as a stimulant, then becomes a depressant. Explains why coffee is sometimes a good remedy after indulging a bit too much...caffeine is a stimulant. Plus, everyone's affected a bit differently by these types of chemicals. Some are not as sensitive to them as others.

Answer 8

Its like everything else we are not SUPPOSED to overdo, you pay for it in some way i.e. the hangovers from hell, the shakes, the thirst, being sick, I won't go on. So in other words wellied last night and whooping it up expends so much energy and poisons your system, your nerves are shot to buggery so no wonder we feel blooody depressed. Only cure - another one. Same with food - overdo it and you get sick and fat, but nice at the time, like bevvy.

Answer 9

It starts off by being a stimulant and ends up by being a depressant.
You feel good because you probably don't go too far with the stuff! Good luck to you, don't try going any further!

Answer 10

Alcohol has numerous effects, but ultimately it is classified as a central nervous system depressant--it slows down thought, reflexes, body functioning.