Antidepressants wont work with an alcohol c…
posted by ATS
Many of us with alcoholism and another mental illness such as depression or bipolar also struggle with what I call episodic illiteracy.
Episodic illiteracy is characterized by the inability to read the warning labels on the prescription bottles of our antidepressants and mood stabilizers. I am talking about the label with a line across a martini glass that says: DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES WHEN TAKING THIS MEDICATION or the label with the caricature of the droopy-eyed guy that says ALCOHOL MAY INTENSIFY THIS EFFECT.
We can read the other warning labels on the bottle, especially…
