Why does drinking gin and tonic make you feel depressed the next day?!
Answers: Well it happens to me! I wonder if it happend to you?
Yes, while alcohol IS a depressant... and some people drink on social occasions and to celebrate; there are also those the drink to smooth over times where the people themselves are depressed... which makes the situation and feelings worse than better... my suggestion is that if you are depressed and don't want to think about what is going on in your life either A) change the situation in your life B) Exercise... endorphines that are released while exercising actually make you feel better or C) smoke a bowl... it's relaxing and there is no hangover the next day (of course this won't actually make you not depressed but it is better than drinking, alcohol has horrible effects on the body)...
I can't drink the stuff, can't get past the smell but my grandmother always said that too - gin makes you depressed - I often wondered if it was really true.
Edit - I know alcohol depresses the nervous system but my grandmother and my dad drank like fish and always said it was gin that made people depressed and teary - never heard any other spirit mentioned.
Alcohol is a depressant.
Well I guess all alcohol types are depressants.
Haven't heard that Gin is worse than the others.
I have heard that clear drinks like gin and vodka generate less hangover symptoms than Whisky, Rum etc.
In fact hangover symptoms are almost identical to depression symptoms.
you might be allergic to the gin. Gin with juniper berries causes a strong allergic reaction in people who have a low tolerance for tree pollens.
CHANGE YOUR DRINK
gin makes you feel depressed because you relized that you just drank gin, and thought about its smell an taste,
i guess the purer the alcohol, the less hangover, i noticed if i drink alot of beer or rum i get a bad hangover, but vodka and white tequila i dont