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sandra247
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 Posted: 05/02/07 - 16:43 Post subject: Anxiety and depression for days after binge drinking |
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| Sometime I can binge drink and be fine. When I slip up and binge drink more then 10 beers per occasion I wake up with severe anxiety and panic attack that can last up to 7 days before I feel normal again. I feel suicidal at time during this time. The morning after this binge drinking I usally feel like I want to jump out of my skin and repeat purge to try and make myself feel better. I crying an crying uncontrollablely. I also take adtivan to try and make my self sleep in hopes that it will go away. My friend seem to hardly get hungover while I am unable to function properly for up to week. I enjoy drinking and try to limit myself. I tend to drink probably once ever 2 months. I just wanted to find out why this happens to me. I feel as if I have some kind of severe under laying mental problem. What should I do if this happens again. |
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| Posted: 05/09/07 - 15:29 Post subject: Binge drinking causes anxiety |
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sandra247
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| Posted: 05/09/07 - 15:45 Post subject: Re: Binge drinking causes anxiety |
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thank you so much for the reply. Its so conforting to realize there is other people that this happens to. I would like to be able to chat with you more closelty about this. You are just like me. I also go on the net after and search for a reason why I have to suffer so much. My MSN messenger address is ***** add me so we can share info.!
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| Jared wrote: | | i experience the exact same thing sandra. binge drinking gives me severe anxiety and all the nasty feelings & thoughts associated with it. I sometimes wonder too whether its some underlying disorder - especially in the few days after a binge! I think we are fine though - its not us its the binging, it affects some more harshly than others. From my research i can tell you that alcohol supresses the nervous system. its a depressant. If we depress the nerves for long periods through binge drinking our body reacts once the alcohol has gone by releasing adrenalin to compensate,making us feel severe anxiety - that totally unbearable fear that grabs you right by the chest. I hate it! il be honest ive just been on a major binge with my mates and i have spent the last few days searching the net tryting to explain the way i feel - all fueled by the fact that my stupid binge has made me feel just as you described in your post. I also beleive the fact that i know that binging is wrong and not healthy feeds my anxiety with enough negativity to maximise its awful potential - this is why maybe my friends dont get "the fear" ( as they call it) as badly, they just dont see a problem with it. I hope i will have the mental strength in the future to know better than to binge all nite because its just not worth it.Stope the binging, stop the anxiety simple as that. |
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| Posted: 05/09/07 - 22:38 Post subject: |
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| Ok so I am in the middle of the exact same problem but maybe worse, im 25 years old, was a heavy drinker for years, then slowed down to only weekends, but bing drinking on those weekends I mean probably 20-25 drinks a night. Anyway, I stop drinking for a month and then go to Vegas, drink non stop for 4 days, and drink about 20 energy drinks, last night im there, I drink probably at least 40 drinks in a 24 hour span. Next morning, I wake up hung over as hell, sick as hell puking and the usual, but then all of a sudden I get depressed and anxious as hell, felt like I was loosing my mind. Could not sleep felt like I was going crazy. Missed my flight had to stay two extra days, then I go to the airport the next day and am still anxious as hell. My brother talks me into getting on the plane. Minute the plane takes off, full blown panic attack, im in the bathroom puking, thought I was trapped and going crazy. Anyway I make it home, started feeling better, now it is the next day, was feeling better the next day until about an hour ago when full blow panic attack and surreal state returns. I don’t know if it was the alcohol, dehydration or what, but I don’t know what to do to make them go away, because I truly am beginning to think that I have lost my mind. Any suggestions would help. Also has anyone gone to a doctor about this, as if it does not get better, I think I am going to go in. |
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| Posted: 05/09/07 - 22:47 Post subject: |
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| yes i have been to the doctor and yes it helps I am on a med called celexa and then I have ativan also that I take as needed. I mostly just take the ativan after I have been drink and I wake up the next day with the panic attacks. Ativan helps com you down and will help you sleep. the celexa I take daily help me enjoy my life more that I dont have the need to bringe drink. It helps me learn how to enjoy my life and prevent anxiety. |
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| Posted: 05/21/07 - 20:27 Post subject: binge drinking and anxiety |
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Hello there,
I am going through some severe anxiety at the moment, and I'm seriously hoping it is because of my binge drinking a couple nights ago. For me, the anxiety gets so bad that I never want to have a drink again. I always seem to tell myself that I won't ever drink again, and that I should go to AA, but don't seem to follow through. I gave up drinking for about two years - 26 - 28, but then fell off the wagon. Anyway, I feel the same discomfort as has been described here, which I hope is comforting to someone. I take lorazepam to calm myself down. |
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nicholaspayton
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| Posted: 05/30/07 - 11:12 Post subject: Same here |
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| It is called alcoholism. I have been struggling with it for 9 years. My binges last over a week now and I just drink vodka and don't eat a thing. When i finally do come off the binge, I withdraw big time and have seizures at times. The anxiety is what kills me the most though. It only gets worse, I would suggest doing whatever a person can to not drink ever again. I can tell by some of the posts on here that they are heading down the same path I have been. It started the same way, just the horrible anxiety after a binge. Trust me though, it gets worse and it will kill you in a horrible way if you don't stop drinking completely. I just had started a new job, went out with coworkers, drank and next thing I knew, I missed 6 days of work, lost 15 lbs and am withdrawing bad. I am only 31 years old. I am just writing all this because the anxiety after a binge is the first sign. It does get worse and will get worse unless you stop drinking completely. |
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| Posted: 06/10/07 - 23:28 Post subject: drinking and severe depression/crying |
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This happens to me as well- only I don't even have to drink that much.
I'll have 3 or 4 drinks and I'll be fine WHILE I'm drinking- but then later on the same nite, as the alcohol is trying to leave my system, I feel SEVERELY depressed. I cry uncontrollably and don't want to be alive anymore. Then for a couple days after, I'll feel really shitty.
After that I feel fine again, but it just sucks that any time I want to get drunk I have to deal with this shit!
booo! |
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| Posted: 10/01/07 - 15:35 Post subject: hi |
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Hi i started drinking every weekend when i was about 20 , i got into all sorts of trouble with ppl and the police, i desperately wanted away from drink, I can stay off it for months and weeks but then i go back on it and all the usual shit happens again. I go on it for fri and sat then i suffer from sun to fri, i feel anxious, depressed, guilty, and feel like like killing myself, i feel really bad , i hate this feeling so much, i also worry that i co  uld get to drunk and i could get lippy with people and then i could end up murdered , drink related, i am a very quiet bot off the drink and like to keep fit but when i drink and wake up the next day, i get all the horrid feelings again and its always the same, i just want to get off the drink and be good. |
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