I hope this is the right place to post as it's not exactly an alcohol support thing....I have had some issues with depression and in particular anxiety before, but have developed plenty of coping mechanisms (enormous amounts of running, a great therapist, and trying to sleep well despite my children!). CBT has hugely helped me, I've felt generally like I'm on track and I talk openly with friends and family about mental health and things I do to make sure I'm ok.
I suddenly feel a bit derailed...I don't drink very often, having children close together and breastfeeding means I have gone at one point 3 years without. Now that the kids are not babies I've found myself occasionally getting a babysitter, going out with my husband or friends and, well, drinking a bit. Getting I guess a bit drunk? A few glasses of wine...not steaming, more on the tipsy side. And I then feel - and I mean for like about a week, no joke - absolutely horrendous. Weepy. Tired. Unreasonable. It's happened about 3 times - over the past few months every time I go out and drink to what I suppose is excess...So I've stopped doing that.
I've now found that even say a glass of wine, god forbid two, is disrupting my sleep, and causing me to feel like this. Am I over-reacting or have other people felt this way? I realise that excessive drinking often would kind of derail my mental health but I haven't felt that what I was doing was enough to really warrant it! Tbh I wouldn't care if I just gave up altogether, but I wondered if this was common?