anxiety after drinking?

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yeah when im drunk im calm. sober im anxious. plus i only got like 5 or 6 hours of sleep so when i woke up i was still slightly drunk.
 
the night before last i got really drunk with my friend and then last night while i had a hangover i had a really bad anxiety attack, i havent had one in months and ive been drinking since i turned 21 in july. the panicky feeling has carried over into today and i dont know what to do. im worried that it could be a brain tumor or something. is what im feeling normal and somewhat common? and is the only way to cure this to stop drinking altogether???
 
My best advice is that if your doing something that is causing anxiety, it might be best to stop doing it. Your certainly not helping what ever your underlying issue is by continuing to drink.

Might be blunt, but it's true.
 
Same thing happens to me after a heavy night of drinking. Don't worry about it, you will be better by tomorrow. it's the price us anxious people have to pay for a night of partying. Our bodies go crazy trying to rid our body of the alcohol and not using it's energy to calm our bodies from anxiety. My heartrate is usually high the next day and i get a feeling of impeding doom, and just a weird feeling out of my body experience.
 
Yea i get that feeling too, it's known as depersonalization. Sometimes i'll be watching TV and get this weird feeling and feel like i'm not myself, then i start thinking about stupid things like "am i going insane right now? is this what it feels like to go crazy?" Then i start forgetting to breathe and bug myself out and have to get up and start moving around. Really make sitting down to watch a movie tough when that happens. It's like you forget who you are for a second!
 
yeah but im not really sure what is causing it. i havent had any alcoholic drinks in like 3 days and i still feel anxious. like right now for instance im starting to go into the derealization zone. i hate this so much. is medicine really the only way of making me better because i wish that wasnt the case. this feels scary.
 
I stopped drinking 15 yrs ago because of this, I couldn't function as a human if I continued to live that type of lifestyle.

I know your not happy with whats going on (I mean who is), but we must play the hand we're dealt. You have to tackle this head on.

I think getting away from that lifestyle made me a better person, so there's a chance you might find a silver lining in all of this

I wish you good luck.
 
Whats wierd with me though, is i actually feel calmer when drunk, and don't have any panic attacks then! Even though my heartrate is soo much higher, and my body physically feels anxious, my mind always remains calm. But then the next day sobering up is bad, especially if i don't get enough sleep, recipe for severe anxiety.
 
yeah its a really scary feeling. when my anxiety is bugging out i feel like that almost constantly, like if im doing something to keep my mind occupied i can sometimes feel normal for a few minutes but the anxiety hits me in waves.
 
yeah it started last night as my hangover begun to subside i started feeling anxious. when i get anxious i get a weird dreamlike state feeling. like im not really myself its hard to explain but its horribly scary.
 
When I go drinking, the entire next day I'm full of anxiety and my blood pressure is fairly elevated (into the 140 range). At this point it's not worth the evening of expensive fun for a full day of anxiety following it.
 
i also noticed that when i get this anxious feeling it is accompanied by depression and lack of energy and slight dizzyness and lack of appetite and my stomach feels extra gasey and bloated. whats wrong with me??? is this a sign of something else besides anxiety?
 
Mate, it goes with the territory, often the pain afterwarRAB isnt worth the pleasure before, but many still do it, I try to drink water n between a drinkin session and sod the remarks, it stops the anxiety an blues at least to a degree, and yes its stating the bleeding obvious, best wishes
 
Been there. I focus during these perioRAB of anxiety on people I might have offended, and the anxiety doesn't go away until I have spoken to them.
there are other solutions to this problem besides medication, of course there are! Obviously alcohol is a terrible terrible thing to put in our bodies, fun, but ultimately destructive. So quitting would be the most effective solution. Goes without saying i suppose.. But besides that I've found that breathing exercises are very helpful in reducing anxiety - e.g. pranayama yoga, i recommend looking it up if you dont know it. Meditation is also good. Both of these exercises work to clear the mind of thoughts, basically tell that nagging swine to shut up. They take energy, however, and so aren't that useful when hungover, but if persisted in over time, anxiety will be generally reduced. For less severe feelings of imminent doom, be aware of the muscles of the face, jaw and neck. no doubt they'll be clenched. relax them, allow the jaw to hang open comfortably. This also regulates thought, as when we think, these muscles are being used, just as when we talk. For more on this, read Undoing Yourself with Energised Meditation by Chris Hyatt, and do the exercises in it - its available for free on scribd.com

Hope this helps - I highly recommend looking into these exercises and others like them.Medication is not a permanent solution. if it was, pharmaceutical companies wouldnt be so rich. I did pranayama for about half an hour daily over the course of a week and afterward had no desire to drink at all. a week after that i saw someone smoking and realised that i had given that up without even realising. Most importantly i felt really happy, really energetic, and completely free from any anxiety.
 
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