Why is alcohol a “depressant”, but makes you feel less depressed while drinking it?

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Why is alcohol a “depressant”, but makes you feel less depressed while drinking it?

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Different kinds of “depress”. Alcohol is chemically a depressant, not *necessarily* an emotional depressant (though that varies from person to person, but it’s not what people mean by “depressant” when discussing alcohol)