Im 18, but never had a drink before. does drinking help depression?

i realized that i can't take it anymore, i have severe ocd and depression as a result. even though it's been 12 or more year since the start of it, i've barely ever been negative, but now i can feel the negative energy rushing out of me. i've become extremely irritated at everything. my grandparents are worried about my personality and they don't know about my condition well.

grandma is really against meds and i know that i have to take it forever

OH NO!.....

alcohol itself is a depressant

As stated above, alcohol is a depressant and will only make you more depressed. Furthermore, heavy drinking can cause seizures, blackouts and alcohol poisoning. Deadly stuff when not consumed in moderation.

The best thing to do if your grandma won't let you take meds is journal your feelings in a blog or private journal. In this way you will be channeling that bottled up negative energy into something creative. Also, you will have a record of your progress (or regression) so you can track how well (or bad) you've been doing.

Alcohol is a "depressant", but not in the same sense of the word "depression". It is a "depressant" because it slows heart rate, breathing, and reaction time. It does not deplete seratonin and norepinephirne levels in your brain, which is what the term "depression" generally means. Anyone who says they are the same is uneducated.

Alcohol will make you feel better for a couple hours. However, when you come out of those hours, you will still feel horrible and hopeless and most likely worse. Nothing will have changed. This can easily lead into a scary cycle, because that hopelessness may lead you to believe alcohol is the only thing to make you feel better again. After time, this constant effect of coming in and out of intoxication, losing other interests in life, and feelings of futility could lead to even deeper depression and addiction, and the chances of getting out of that ever are slim and a lot more work than you have to deal with now.

Don't drink to fix emotions.

drinking makes it worse, alcohol is a depressant, so it wont take away from you problems it will add to them I would try and seek help from your gp or other medical professional. I have depression and I feel alcohol makes it worse, although for a short time it feels like an escape it eventually makes things worse. I went to my doc who told me I had clinical depression and I was prescribed some antidepressants and had counseling, saw a physchiatrist and everything, that helped. If you do take antidepressants you won't be on them forever, they are only there to help when you can't fully cope on your own, at some point you come off them slowly, I was on them for a year then came off them. I didn't feel alcohol helped, and from what other people have told me it generally doesn't help anyone, just creates more problems. Have you tried counseling or anything for your depression? I don't have an OCD so I can't comment or advise on that but I felt that going to counseling helped my depression. I hope you can get better, take care

If your grandma is against meds then seek a good counselor if will help immensely. Drinking is not the answer because it only numbs reality but after the buzz reality is still the same. Also if you get used to doing something to just numb you or to make you forget for a while its only a matter of time until you try other things and then you become a slave to the stuff. You have to get positive help. A counselor a support group a minister or a church. Don't let disease get the best of you, you are still young and have allot to offer those around you. Also try to find a hobby, something you are good at or get involved in the summer with the community. It really makes you feel good when you can help others.

Definately not. If you're depressed often and drink to try to correct the problem each time, you'll more than likely develop a drinking problem and that will only make things worse for you by giving you another problem to deal with. I'd consider trying therapy for a while if you aren't already. It'll help you to talk to someone who isn't biased and understands how to deal with problems like this.

Drinking will make things worse.
Alcohol is a depressant. You need to see your doctor. He or she can prescribe an antidepressant and possibly recommend a psychiatrist and a counselor.
If you self medicate with alcohol you run the risk of becoming an alcoholic and causing tremendous harm to your liver and the rest of your body.

Drink do not resolve anything. Talk with your grandparents, I know they ara a LITLLE protective but they will understand any problem you have. But remember the problem knows how to swim,so do not drink. You will have more problems if you do.
No I do not drink.

One of the Best things against depression is taking a walk out into the forest during the day, looking at the greenery will calm your nerves down, and get you up to the postive attitude to combat your problems

Like the others have said, drinking is a bad idea; alcohol is a depressant...and will most likely interfere with your medication, possibly making it less effective.

you just need to talk to someone..to get it all out in the open..
stay away from alcohol...this just makes matters worse

whatever happens you are not alone...

tc

DON'T DRINK. It feels like it's helping at first, but a few hours later you are more depressed than before you drank. Go see a psychiatrist, not a psychologist. It does sound like you may have some other mental health diagnosis going on as well. Irritability is usually not a part of OCD. When I was first diagnosed with bipolar, I had a similar dilemna. I did not want to be taking medications for the rest of my life. Several mental crashes and hospitalizations later, I now have a different mentality. If I have to take it to live a normal life, I will. Treat it like any other illness. If you had high blood pressure or diabetes, you would need to take meds. So don't let this be any different. Talk to your grandparents. Let them know that you will need to take these meds to function properly and improve your quality of life. I don't know if they are religious people, but if so, you can share a scripture with them. The scripture is at Matthew 9:12. It talks about how important it is to see a doctor when we are ill. Also, you could go online and print out some info on OCD and share it with them. Perhaps it will help them understand your point better. Good luck.