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I Have The Fear Something Chronic

  • 30-07-2012 9:29am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭


    So, yeah.. I have the fear. I avoided it for most of the weekend by just continuing to drink everytime I felt it coming on, but now I finally have to face it. It's Monday morning, I'm in work, I woke up late and probably wasn't fit to drive to work.

    Are weekend-long benders really worth it when I have this crippling fear in work, and I have so much to do? :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    I had the fear all day yesterday!

    Yesterday i swore Id never drink again, today Im already planning a few drinks later!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    You weren't stopped this morning and you'll be grand going home so nothing to worry about


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Had it yesterday, still struggling a bit today....it's a sign I'm old :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    kfallon wrote: »
    Had it yesterday, still struggling a bit today....it's a sign I'm old :(

    Youre not are you?! :D HA


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    kfallon wrote: »
    Had it yesterday, still struggling a bit today....it's a sign I'm old :(

    no its not, a sign you're old is me


    sober all weekend, sober now, :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭Ah_Yeah


    The only way to fix this fear is to drink more.. which means fear again eventually, or just deal with it. Can someone come over and spoon me, I'm needy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    Ah_Yeah wrote: »
    The only way to fix this fear is to drink more.. which means fear again eventually, or just deal with it. Can someone come over and spoon me, I'm needy

    You need lots of water and a few ice pops! Be grand!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    2 late ones on Fri and Sat, not a wink's sleep last night just sweating and tossing and turning. Now I'm in work in bits, strange pains in abdomen, legs feel like they've been beaten with bats for hours. God I need to get my act together :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Ah_Yeah wrote: »
    Are weekend-long benders really worth it when I have this crippling fear in work, and I have so much to do? :(

    No. I can never work hungover its just torture so if I was going out I'd do it on Friday only to give me plenty of recovery time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    PM me you're address and if I'm anywhere near I'll come and spoon with you and make you tea and cook you food and watch documentaries until all the badness is gone away.
    I've a toucheen of the fear myself today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    You need lots of water and a few naggins! Be grand!

    FYP...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    PM me you're address and if I'm anywhere near I'll come and spoon with you and make you tea and cook you food and watch documentaries until all the badness is gone away.
    I've a toucheen of the fear myself today.

    Will you come and spoon me?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Can you even have fear chronically?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    ah the problems of drug addicts, rough stuff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    2 late ones on Fri and Sat, not a wink's sleep last night just sweating and tossing and turning. Now I'm in work in bits, strange pains in abdomen, legs feel like they've been beaten with bats for hours. God I need to get my act together :(

    *sniggers*
    No wonder you were sweating ;)
    I'd say it's fairly beetroot this morning :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    Youre not are you?! :D HA

    Less of your backchat you young whippersnapper :(

    :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Jesus Shaves


    kfallon wrote: »
    Had it yesterday, still struggling a bit today....it's a sign I'm old :(
    syndeyfife wrote: »
    Youre not are you?! :D HA

    Its about time ye 2 got a room


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 waterlily23


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    I had the fear all day yesterday!

    Yesterday i swore Id never drink again, today Im already planning a few drinks later!

    :D So many times people swear they will never drink again. But then weekend comes and those words are forgotten ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭Ah_Yeah


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    You need lots of water and a few ice pops! Be grand!

    I'm eating chocolate ice cream. Things are looking up.

    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    PM me you're address and if I'm anywhere near I'll come and spoon with you and make you tea and cook you food and watch documentaries until all the badness is gone away.
    I've a toucheen of the fear myself today.

    I want to watch cartoons :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Ah_Yeah wrote: »
    I'm eating chocolate ice cream. Things are looking up.




    I want to watch cartoons :(

    I would recommend a couple of cans later on too if you can stomach it, will take the 'edge' off!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Resolve is never stronger than the morning after it was weakest.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭CodyJarrett


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Resolve is never stronger than the morning after it was weakest.

    Wtf is up with Anono?

    I'm more worried about him than the OP.

    Being philosophical this early on a Monday morning can only mean one thing.

    The Scientologists must have got him!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Exercise is the solution to this (and eating properly, and not drinking too much alcohol). Get on your bike and go for a long ride; it burns off the flight-fight-or-freeze chemicals. You'll feel great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Jesus Shaves


    :confused:
    Exercise is the solution to this (and eating properly, and not drinking too much alcohol). Get on your bike and go for a long ride; it burns off the flight-fight-or-freeze chemicals. You'll feel great.

    And dehydratEs you more!
    The only solution to the fear is 12 cans


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    By the fear you mean you fear you did something awful while drunk and don't remember it right?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I've heard people talk about it... But wtf is 'the fear'?? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Wtf is up with Anono?

    I'm more worried about him than the OP.

    Being philosophical this early on a Monday morning can only mean one thing.

    The Scientologists must have got him!

    Don't worry - it were from a movie what I stayed up late watching last night.

    Naked.


    (That's the movie title, I wasn't watching it naked. I had a sarong on.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    Abi wrote: »
    I've heard people talk about it... But wtf is 'the fear'?? :confused:

    Getting so drunk that you don't remember the entire night, and then fearing you might have done something stupid/horrible during those minutes of memory loss.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Ah_Yeah wrote: »
    The only way to fix this fear is to drink more.. which means fear again eventually, or just deal with it. Can someone come over and spoon me, I'm needy

    Then there's the other "only way", which is to give up the drink and become tea-total like I did, and laugh at people telling everyone they've got the fear.


    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I have something chronic too *giggles*


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    The fear for me is that horrible uneasy feeling I get after binge drinking. It's not a fear of what you done during your binge, it's just a feeling of despair, depression, worry, anxiety etc. Help.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The only way to dissapate the effects of "the fear," is to have a good cry.

    And a tug
    And a bag of greasy chips
    And watch a season of Sopranos
    Repeat untill fear is gone.

    Having to work makes this difficult, so the only reasonable solution is to quit your job


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    The fear for me is that horrible uneasy feeling I get after binge drinking. It's not a fear of what you done during your binge, it's just a feeling of despair, depression, worry, anxiety etc. Help.

    That's what I consider 'The Fear' too, it's a disaster to try and sleep with of a Sunday night :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    Getting so drunk that you don't remember the entire night, and then fearing you might have done something stupid/horrible during those minutes of memory loss.

    I'd say it's more than that. It's the sense of self-loathing and guilt that descends on you the day after a heavy session. There's this horrible feeling that you're wasting your life, your money AND you might have done something silly last night which you've yet to find out about.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭Ah_Yeah


    Everyone has different definitions, but I would consider the fear to be mostly crippling anxiety that I have done something stupid/detrimental to my reputation, worry etc.

    Urban Dictionary Definition Here


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    kfallon wrote: »
    That's what I consider 'The Fear' too, it's a disaster to try and sleep with of a Sunday night :(

    Seriously NO sleep at all last night, now I just have this horrible feeling of stalesness. Nearly 32, single, flatsharing... God so much is wrong with my life :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    I have the fear too.

    The fear that at 31 I have found myself wandering aimlessly over the hill. When I look back, with binoculars, i can see you guys talking about "the fear" and other terms that I don't understand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    [|QUOTE=BraziliaNZ;79979952]Will you come and spoon me?[/QUOTE]


    Yes, of course.

    Ah_Yeah wrote: »
    I want to watch cartoons :(


    This can be arranged - spongebob marathon?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    I have the fear from over the weekend as i didnt get nearly enough sex... and way to much sleep in the process...

    To be resolved this weekend...


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,663 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Hmmmmm. Seems to be many different interpretations of "The Fear". To me The fear is the anxiety you get, usually the evening of the day you get the hangover, its hard to explain, but you're very anxious, on edge and particularly vulnerable. It has nothing to do with worrying about something you may or may not have done while under the influence

    The best thing to do to beat it is have a drink or got on a boat during rough seas. Both have the same effect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    faceman wrote: »
    Hmmmmm. Seems to be many different interpretations of "The Fear". To me The fear is the anxiety you get, usually the evening of the day you get the hangover, its hard to explain, but you're very anxious, on edge and particularly vulnerable. It has nothing to do with worrying about something you may or may not have done while under the influence

    The best thing to do to beat it is have a drink or got on a boat during rough seas. Both have the same effect.

    Or get some exercise!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    Or get some exercise!

    Not a popular option on a Monday morning.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Seriously NO sleep at all last night, now I just have this horrible feeling of stalesness. Nearly 32, single, flatsharing... God so much is wrong with my life :(

    32, single and flat sharing. You've obviously wasted your life up until now. No wonder you are a raging alcoholic. You'll probably get fired from your job and crash the car on the way home today.

    I bet you didn't even see your mother this weekend...

    How are the credit cards doing?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    studiorat wrote: »
    32, single and flat sharing. You've obviously wasted your life up until now. No wonder you are a raging alcoholic. You'll probably get fired from your job and crash the car on the way home today.

    How are the credit cards doing?

    Don't have a credit card or debts, at least. I don't have a car. But there might be a bomb on the tube, peace and serenity at last.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    I'm not alone!

    Been counting down the minutes since I woke up this morning until I can leave work at a semi-respectful time :(

    Also I think I may have brain damage!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    eat some beans

    Seriously


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭CodyJarrett


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    Or get some exercise!

    Yeah and cut down your porklife too.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Zumo Berry smoothy + Ginseng and Guarana..

    Loads of water and 2 Hail Marys


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    xzanti wrote: »
    Zumo Berry smoothy + Ginseng and Guarana..

    Loads of water and 2 Hail Marys

    I really can't see how a smoothie will fix depression and anxiety. I think valium is supposed to be good for this type of thing.


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