Anxiety and depression for days after binge drinking

hi im only 19 and have drank since the age of 16 , at the beginning it was only occasional, but now its weekly... since 17 or 18 my life has gone down the pan if im honest... im not as successful a my chosen sport, ruined my examinations.. didnt get into the course i wanted. now im not even at college and still binge drinking... just the last few months or soo i have suffered from severe anxiety after binge drinking and also states of paranoia?? just now i think my friends think i could be loosing it but its all in my head, i think?? i think now alot before attending social functions. i think to myself whats the point, i want to get away from everyone. my life has just got worse and worse and at only 19 im thinking whats the point? i need help badly ... i want back to the old me and back to full health quickly? please help someone...

I have had this problem, and worse... People...FISH OIL. High grade stuff with the highest levels of EPA and DHA that you can find. Alcohol decreases levels of omega 3's in your brain and you really need these. It also decreases seratonin which makes it twice as bad. You can't take fish oil the next day as some kind of cure, you have to take it daily for at least 3wks before you no longer have this problem. 5-htp is a good 'morning after pill' for this as it increases seratonin levels quickly. But in my opinion its not as good as good quality high grade fish oil. Don't muck around and get cheap stuff it won't work. All the Best BB

wow...I suffer an anxiety disorder, i try not to drink. i get this same thing except after only 3 or 4 wines over quite a few hours...wierd. is 3 or 4 drinks considered binge drinking? or is it that if you have anxiety disorder you shouldnt drink at all?

Hi. I'm so glad I have found this site. I was starting to think this feeling would never go away. I binge drank Saturday night and blacked out, then sunday continued to drink during the day. Sunday night I woke up and thought I was going crazy, heart palpation's, dizzy, anxious, fear, and irrational thoughts. I though once I finally went to sleep that I would feel better the next day, but NO. I was miserable all day, everyday has gotten a little better, but the anxiety is still here and not leaving. I have taken xanex that were given to me when I went to the emergency room last night.  It is helping, but as soon as it wears off. I just feel horrible again. today is the 6th day, and I just want to feel like me again! When will this go away? I hope soon! It sounds like most of you felt better after a week or so. I would give anything to feel like myself again. I know I will never drink that much again.

I will say it again...If you're getting that horrible anxiety and you don't want it anymore, you have to QUIT DRINKING!!  ALMOST NOBODY moderates.  Eventually we all end up back at the same horrible place.  Drinking is good for nothing.  It's worthless.  I drank for many many years and at 44 with my intelligence and work ethic I should be LIGHT YEARS ahead of where I am now in life.  I'm in debt, and don't own a house.  I make good $$ and wasted so much of it on lame things and horrible during drinking decisions.   If you want to have an AWESOME life...and be rid of the anxiety (it's only going to get worse) seriously DUMP the alcohol...Work hard and go for your dreams and best goals in life...if you dump all drugs and alcohol you can get there..watch out for Xanax too, and any other benzodiazepines.  They can trigger relapses!!  I swear on my life that I could be dead, and it took that to get me to quit.  Don't waste your precious life with alcohol and anxiety and depression and all the other lame stuff that goes with it!

I have not drank in 7 days which is no big deal. I don't drink all that much anyway. But when I do I over drink. I have no plans of drinking anytime soon. It has been 7 days and I still have horrible anxiety and I'm so scared I will never feel normal again.

Well I just want to update the  status of my condition here, because I know that others will come to this site to look for support as I did. I see not many people use this forum anymore, because I did not get much for replies or support. But the website did help to know that others were in my situation and came through it. Today is day 8 for me. I started to feel much better last night, and am almost back to myself again. I would say 90%. So if you are reading this, and feeling horrible, just know that it will get better. I know I will have a much more appreciation for sobriety and life, after this. I never want to feel like that again. It is amazing to be able to think clear again, be happy, and enjoy life! Drinking is just not worth it! Worst week of my life is officially over!

hey everyone so glad to hear i am not the only 1 to feel so anxious and mental during a hangover. my heart was racing and i couldnt stop pacing up and down the room wishing i could be sedated and just thinking i was crazy.if any1 else wants to talk about this at the moment it would be good as i would like some support to stop drinking altogethe as i dont want that feeling ever again

I've been having anxiety attacks daily after a heavy night out. It's now been almost 2 weeks and they don't seem to be fading. Almost tempted to get a script for valium from the docs to help. The after effects of alcohol always seems much worse for me if things are a bit stressfull. Thing is, I've just met a girl I really like and the sun is shining. I had a nervous breakdown a few years back and it came on after a long period of anxiety so I'm kinda shitting myself. All I can do is wait and hope it wears off. I really want to stop drinking because of this but I'm a 36 year old man and it makes me feel weak that I react this way. Rubbish. I feel for anyone that feels this.. love

sparkpaul wrote:Thanks for your post, I am just coming down from a binge.  Maybe I am lucky (or not) but this has only happened to me 3-4x in the last three years.  Did you ever feel  like you fully recovered? Or are you still taking the occasional medication to offset the affects?

I truly thought I was the only one. SEVERE fear and anxiety after binge drinking is something I've started experiencing over the last year or so. I lived through something quite horrible and started using alcohol to deal with it. I have a few drinks, I feel relaxed, social, confident and then I can't stop drinking. The next day I'm ashamed, I stress over how I may have acted, what I said, etc...I feel an actual pressure in my chest and have to remind myself to take deep breaths. Obviously the solution would be to stop drinking entirely, however I find that idea daunting. The alternative is to continue torturing myself with the binge drinking/anxiety pattern. My band-aid solution is to have one drink during my anxiety attack, but this makes me feel like a complete alky. Guess it's time to face it. I need help to stick to healthier ways of dealing with my issues.

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I'm normally fine with casual drinking...1-2 glasses of wine a night, or out with friends. It seems to be related to stress for me, I'm going through a divorce after 25 years of marriage. Several circumstances involved in the divorce come to the surface when I "over do it", I tend to spiral into a deep, deep deperesion, cry uncontrollably and question everything about myself and my current relationship. I'm 46, slender and thought at first it was due to the fact that my body just can't handle that much alcohol...I went from being a casual/social drinker to when we do go out in a group, I have large amounts of hard liquor..."duck farts", mixed with other types of alcohol along the way. I'm in a wonderful relationship with a great guy whom I don't want to lose due to this, so the answer for me is to limit the drinking, if drinking at all. I thought I was going crazy, sometimes even feeling suicidal. Normally, I'm upbeat, happy and in complete control. This is a terrible feeling, and I don't wish it on anyone.

Just getting over another drinking binge. Man I really don't know how many times I have left. I used to drink on weekends at parties and had no problems with the hangover,but with years of escalating drinking and drug use I dont think I have another bender in me to recover from. I have been drinking and doing drugs since I was 13 and im now 32.To me every social setting with casual drinking can set off days of drinking. The result is major panic attacks that last for days unless I keep drinking so its a vicious cycle that I can't seem to break. Over the last few years the binges have gotten longer, but spaced out more between benders.I feel like i'm killing myself slowly infront of my family and friends. I guess now im at the part where im totally straight edge again and have at least afew months of being clean, I just want to stop this insane behaviour. Crises points and celebrations usually trigger these benders. Getting this off my chest and reading other stories that im going through eases the pain so thank you.    

It seems that there are two different types of people who experience post binge drinking depression/anxiety. There are those who have alcoholic tendencies and wereserious drinkers at one point (and perhaps they still are), and then there are those who do not have concerns about alcoholism. People in the latter group might rarely drink and never feel a strong urge to drink but partake sometimes because they like the feeling of being drunk or because of societal pressures. I fall into the latter group in that I have 1 or 2 drinks every fews weeks, and then about every 3 months or so I decide to get more inebriated and have 6 or 7 drinks. I really think that these two groups shouldn't be combined as the source of the problem is likely different in the two groups.