Anxiety after Alcohol

LegacyUser

Does any one else suffer from what I like to call the "Oh no's" after a serious drinking session. I was extremely drunk on Stephens night and I am extremely anxious that I made a fool of myself and possibly said somethings to people that I shouldn't have.( people I work with ect)
I don't have a problem with alcohol, I stay off it for months at a time but every year around Christmas I cut loose.
Does anyone feel the same way the morning after?

Miss Fluff

http://www.steadyhealth.com/Anxiety_and_depression_for_days_after_binge_drinking_t124769.html

It is very common

Bad Seed

I'm not saying you are everything thats wrong with this world but maybe just think about stepping back and changing your personality completely because it sounds like there might be something wrong you, I may be wrong and I hope I am for your sake.

LegacyUser

Yes, absolutely. This used to happen to me quite a bit - I'm a lovely, normal person when sober (I think, haha) but when I got drunk I was a mess, telling other peoples' secrets to anyone, being way too honest, getting sick, blah blah.

Anyway, this sounds stupid but I basically just decided I didn't want that any more, because it was making me hate myself. I *made* myself not get to that point - one thing that worked for me was taking out barely enough money for one or two drinks and a taxi home, that way I avoided buying more drinks for myself as I got drunker. So I could get merry, but relatively sober.

Maybe that won't help you at all, but just my two cents. It's a miserable feeling, you'll feel soo much better having had a few drinks and a good night rather than a mad session you regret. Good luck!

cafecolour

The 'shameover' - happens to everyone. Alcohol is a depressant. Those who drink regularly are just more used to dealing with it (or embarrassing themselves).

There's been mornings when I woke up dead embarrassed about the night before only to review the events of the night before and realize there wasn't even anything to be embarrassed about.

CDfm

So you cut loose and do you have any reason to believe you said or did something awful.

If you regularly drink yourself into a stupor and do or say stupid things maybe you should stop doing that.

mikemac

Oh yes, this is very common OP.

I've gone into work the next day having convinced myself I'd done something foolish or abused the boss on a night out
But when I hear the stories the next day, I'd done nothing wrong at all.

But the anxiety is not good at all and you can end up convincing yourself you were at fault for something that never even happened.
You're not a big drinker OP and maybe this is why you are unused to this reaction the few times you do drink.

It's not good, on your next night out just take it easy and you won't go through this needless anxiety

Eve_Dublin

yesyes1234 wrote: »

Yes, absolutely. This used to happen to me quite a bit - I'm a lovely, normal person when sober (I think, haha) but when I got drunk I was a mess, telling other peoples' secrets to anyone, being way too honest, getting sick, blah blah.

Anyway, this sounds stupid but I basically just decided I didn't want that any more, because it was making me hate myself. I *made* myself not get to that point - one thing that worked for me was taking out barely enough money for one or two drinks and a taxi home, that way I avoided buying more drinks for myself as I got drunker. So I could get merry, but relatively sober.

Maybe that won't help you at all, but just my two cents. It's a miserable feeling, you'll feel soo much better having had a few drinks and a good night rather than a mad session you regret. Good luck!

+1 I felt the same as you yesterday OP. Don't drink frequently but was plastered on St Stephen's night (I get plastered on less now that I'm almost 30) and hid out in my parent's house all day yesterday with The Fear. I was sure I said or did something wrong that night. Feeling fresh and breezy again today and I know I didn't actually do anything wrong, we were all pretty messy and I don't think any of us have any recollection of what happened past 2am that night.

St Stephen's Day is always a messy one though so don't beat yourself up...we Irish go into collective meltdown and go on a "mad one" to make up for lost time because of the pub being closed for one whole day (and spending that amount of time couped up in the house with your family )

Make a New Year's resolution: drink less....I find drinking a glass of water along with whatever you're drinking slows you down and the advice above about bringing out less money works.

CDfm

Lots of people have a low alcohol tolerence - I normally avoid it myself asnd have no hiding out.

What some people do is drink mixed drinks like gin and tonic or a nice rum. sippin liquor and dont do rounds. Others pick a limit of 3 or 4 pints and finish after that. You will often see little old men nursing a pint for an hour.

That way you can get moderately pissed.

Denerick

Yes!!! Its one of the reasons why I drink so much less than I used to. I still have the odd binge, but its really only once every 2 or 3 months. I do go to the pub and whatnot regularly enough, but rarely have anything more than 3 or 4 pints/cans...