Anxiety and depression for days after binge drinking
442 answers - active on Mar 17th 2021
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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it goes away... i drank heavily for years then stopped cold turkey and felt the most intense anxiety and depression i’ve ever felt, i also didn’t sleep for 5 full days... not in and out of sleep or sleeping for 20 mins here and there, but absolutely 100% awake for 5 days. by the 4th day i was literally hallucinating... seeing my cat at night but when i look closer there was nothing there, hearing this faint sound of a radio in the distance... then on the 5th day i looked over and my gf asked me if i loved her, and when i went to say yes and touch her face, she wasn’t there... it freaked me out so i drove to a cvs and bought nyquil and drank 5 gulps and it finally knocked me for a few hours and all the symptoms starting going away as I was sleeping more... to this day if i ever binge drink for 2-3 days, i’ll get extreme unreasonable anxiety for days after, and i will have problems sleeping for several days as well. but the point of the story is that it will go away eventually, it may take a bit of time, but everyone goes back to normal after a while
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Consider going on Antabuse to prevent yourself from drinking.
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You need to change your friends.
It's the heavy drinking. You have to stop. I had terrible anxiety attacks as well when binging.
if you read your own post a year later, now...hopefully you can see how obvious the answer to your problem is. stop drinking.
It’s strange reading my old posts on here. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve had a sip and don’t believe I used to have that anxiety and depression. Good to revisit as drinking still tempts me at random times, but never want to revisit this low point.
I’m looking forward to pot in retirement, as it agrees with me and something fun to look forward to 20 years from now.
Just don't drink for the next day. Do that one day at a time and you have a chance.
The anxiety is horrible, that's for sure.
I was sober for just over 2 years. The only thing that worked for me was 1 day at a time.
Until meetings of course didn't work for me either.
Why not quit altogether?
I too suffered from depression after heavy drinking sessions
Now feel great every day of my life after quitting alcohol 6 months ago and NEVER going back.