Anxiety and depression for days after binge drinking

Don't worry people. It WILL FEEL like your life is over and you will never get back to the old you again. Time passes and you will SLOWLY start to feel better guaranteed! I have gone through the process many times and I have experience with all the panic and anxiety. I should seroiusly write a book on this issue. But you WILL FEEL BETTER!

well i'm glad i don't feel alone on this. it's been 3 days and i feel absolutely terrible. i just keep going through my head that i was probably to crazy and everyone probably thinks im stupid or something. i know this sounds stupid but i feel like people judge me based on drunk me and not sober me. ugh.

Hi I been drinking since I was a teen casual sometimes and but the last few years I've started to binge drink because of problems that have risen and I really didn't know how to deal with things. The last straw was during this past Christmas my stepfather passed away and I went heavy into drinking for about 3 weeks and skipped work during that and finally I drank so much this last Friday and now I finally went to work and in my way there I had a massive panick attack I thought I was having a heart attack. I got a hotel and now I'm here sleepless and trying not to freak out I have to work thru so I can work and better my self and come back from this deep hole I have made my self before I bury my self too deep. I have never had a panic attack like tonite it was scary I thought I was gonna die. I'm glad I found this forum because I can see I'm not the only person that has gone thru it. All I know is I have to stop te madness and step up before something really bad happens and I can't come back from. I also mixed in drugs when I could so it's been a tough last 3 weeks but I KNOW I can it.

I get exactly the same,i have returned from holiday several time due to what I call session depression.i get all the symptoms you have.i think a certain element of people are not born to enjoy a drink?

last week I stared drinking on Friday night and since then I have drunk every day and night for 6 days, couldn't sleep at night for longer than 1, hour and found myself getting up to top up with more drink in the hope I might get more sleep but this didn't work either , have been sober past two days. Now only starting to feel a bit better but the anxiety has been the worst I have ever had. Also having muscle pain and I usually only ever get this from exercise and prickly sensation in different locations on my back , think this could be related to vitamin b12 deficiency which is depleted with heavy alcohol intake , also hardly ate a thing during this time. Does anyone else have experience of this ?  

So glad I found this topic because for years I thought it was just me who was like this, I saw family friends drink and they seemed to function fine the following day while I would be anxious and depressed unable to leave the house. I started drinking when I was 18 (32 now), I'd often drink Thurs,Fri,Sat & Sunday nights. This went on every weekend and for the most part I didn't have any problems, It wasn't until I hit my mid 20's I started having problems the following day, I'd get so down i'd feel like crying for no reason and have really dark thoughts, I'd be so anxious I couldn't leave the house, My stomach would churn and i'd just feel intense fear, then one time post drinking I had my first panic attack and ended up in the ER as my heat rate was racing mad, I thought I was having a heart attack but the worst was the feeling of like being in a dream and that was the start of my anxiety.  I've cut down drinking now to only on a Saturday night but it is every Saturday night, I can't remember the last time I had an alcohol free weekend, but if I take last weekend for example, I had 5 low strenght beers, still woke up on Sunday depressed and anxious, so I think the only solution is to quit all together. Sadly I really enjoy my drink, its the one thing I look forward to all week, its gonna be tough to quit but its clear than alcohol just does not agree with me

this has recently started to happen to me aswell and now im looking what i can do to stop it. Yesterday i went to a party with a freind knowing noone there but like 3 people, i had so much fun the whole night and i drank approx 1,5 litres of beer and about 350cl vodka and redbull that i mixed it with. I even have some blank memories from time to time that i don't remember anything. However the day after i felt like shit, and i felt depressed and thought about suicide etc. This has only happened to me once before and it was the last time i drank before this and im worried this will happen every time i drink now. However last time it only lasted for about 1-2 days and i skipped school for this time. (im currently 18 years old)

so, crazy! i'm 26 female with a similar life and have been going throught this for years!!!!!!!! i have always been a big drinker since about 15 years old. i was diagnosed with rheaumatoid arthritis 3 years ago and stopped drinking for 2 years because the medications they put me on could not be mixed! my RA is doing better now so i was taken off the meds and so i started drinking again and all the anxiety came back! now looking back those 2 years where i was forbidden to drink was the most peaceful time of my life! no anxiety, healthier, at peace, more comforatble in my own skin. i sometimes wish i hadnt gotten better because apparantly i dont want to give up my nights of "fun'' even though the anxiety that comes with is is debilitating. good luck! i hope we fine some peace.

This drinking has gone too far I caught a felony terroristic threat charge last year because I was runnin my mouth..I spent the better part of 11 months in jail ..I lost my public housing I lost my job I lost my girlfriend..Sure I was sober in jail but when I was released First thing I did was drink ..This anxiety is too much to bear Im homeless and no one will hire me due to the fact of being a homeless felon..Alcohol should be illegal.I'm 31 and I never thought this is where I would be ..being 31 so I stop drinking but now Im just sober in a tent instead of drunk in a tent..as far as the anxiety goes its better once you stop drinking ..like I said alcohol should be illegal its way over rated screw going to bars screw all the dumb things people say and do while drunk screw the whole college drinking culture and stupid drunk pranks that have happend while drunk screw the cops bringing me to detox this sh@t is over with.

Going through this right now. Iv got better before and then drank again an it's started again. Thanks for your post it's given me some hope

I'm also 23 and your post sounds totally like me, im in the same situation , was the next day better? how are u now?

you might've been going thg through mild alcohol withdrawl which i;m afraid i;m going through now, how long did it take you to get better?

Having the same symptoms as I write this, can't sleep...can't relax, maybe I can't sleep because I think constantly that I'll stop breathing and die when I sleep.

This is me all the way....and there are about 15000 posts all talking about the same thing. I know when I quit for a week..my life gets better...I just had a month and started binging 5 days ago...first 3 days were bad..but last 2 the worst. Just need to stop drinking..the only answer

It's been a real help reading these posts as I have been trying to figure out what is happeing to me. I am 34 years old and would say I have been a binge drinker for the past 12 years but in the culture I live in I just didnt fully understand or worry about the risks as literally everyone else I know does it. I dont drink much in the week but it is just Friday and sometimes Saturday as well out with the mates boozing, lots of beers, shots sometimes, mixing drinks etc and I have always been fine until about July this year. I had a week off work and there was a stag do, a wedding and a music concert and I pretty much drank all week. When I came off it and stopped drinking I just felt completely terrible for at least a week. Thought I had damaged my brain, couldnt think clearly, brain was completely foggy, anxiety like you couldnt believe, incapable of doing small tasks or multitasking, brain felt useless, completely wired and just feeling the worse I have ever felt in my life. Very intense experience and probably the worse week I have ever had as I had never heard about alcohol withdrawal and I just assumed I had damaged by brain. I am still not certain I had that as I didnt have the other normal symptoms, like the shakes, or nausea or anything else like that, it was just all in the head. About a week or so it faded off and I did take it easier on the booze but then a few weeks later I went out and had a few beers at the weekend and then bang, exactly the same and then since then I have been getting headaches and generally feeling run down and anxious. I took 4 weeks without a drink for the first time in years and I now have the occasional drink but it is a nightmare cause everytime I do I am in a state of anxiety the next day worrying about it hapening again, pure hell really as I just feel like I have ruined myself and as a punishment I am now no longer allowed to have any fun and my social life is just fading away cause I have to keep saying no to anyone that asks me out for a drink. I know I should just quit for good but it is so difficult as drinking is so heavily ingrained in my life, my social circle and my culture that I dont understand how I could function in this life without drinking to socialise at least. I fear I will become a recluse, sitting at home alone with no social life. This is literally like going through hell so it is good to read these stories and see that I am not alone in all of this and it is nice to tell my story!