question about antidepressants

[festiveface]

I know the general consensus is that it is o.k to have a few drinks while on them. what would the effects of having quite a few pints be, does anyone know?

my brother has always gone out at a weekend and had a fair few drinks/got drunk but has been fine.
recently he has been going out and getting in allsorts of trouble after drinking, really out of character stuff.
i am trying to figure out if it could be the prozac causing it.
he started taking them when he landed up in a VERY stressful job and he has now changed jobs so i thought maybe stopping them might solve the problem but was worried it might be the wrong thing to do and make things worse.

As far as I know, there isn't a reaction as such with mixing drink and AD's, but alcohol can stop them working properly.

Could it be that his drinking at the weekend is stopping the Prozac working properly, causing his out of character behaviour?

festiveface recent studies have suggested that mixing alcohol and antidepressant can lead to suicidal behavious and tendanceies.
Would disagree with tangerine cath, there are some very physical side effecto fo mixing the two and I really would not recommend it.

I think what you will find is probably that is aggressive behaviour is a cummulation of the meds and the stress, and should be delt with by cutting out the alcohol AND seeing a councilor.
The hard part will be to have him recognise his behaviour. If you suggest to him he may take it the wrong way.
Try to help come to his own conclusions that he needs to stop the drinking and start the counciling.

I was on cipramil for PND it took me a while to connect my very bad days with just one glass of red wine the night before alcohol is a depressant...and probably stops the anti deps working as well...so you leave yourself very raw