I’m talking occasional social drinking. I am a young person and want to have a life.

Once school got out I my drinking, smoking cigars, and dipping picked up significantly. One day I started to notice some withdrawals so I chilled for a bit until they went away. Then I started up again accept with less frequency. Two days after my last drinking episode I began to feel a bit depersonalized and realized I could not focus in a summer class. It felt like there was some gunk in my brain screwing up my thought process. I really could not think like I used to. I also didn’t seem to care about much anymore. I began to freak out as if something was terribly wrong, and know I have figured that that made it much worse. My symptoms happened to coincide with a deadly brain disease so I was convinced I had it. I prepared myself for death for about two days as I waited to see a neurologist. I was pretty sure I had the disease and that death and much suffering were imminent. The neurologist assured me nothing was wrong. I began to search all day for a explanation of my symptoms. I saw a phycologist who suggested it could be anxiety. The symptoms began to occupy my thoughts constantly. One of the most distressing symptoms is that I have absolutely no emotion. No excitement. No drive to do anything. This is particularly distressing because I used to be as happy as a teen can be and very driven. There was a stretch were I was extremely anxious about my condition not going away before school started or not going away ever. This faded as I seeked anxiety help on the internet. After it faded I became very depressed due to the fact that I have no emotion. I am also very easily agitated. I have been trying to self diagnose for about a month now and I seem to be getting no where. Does anyone know what this could be? Anxiety? Depression? PTSD? or maybe a chemical imbalance induced by alcohol?

Okay… So I’ve been feeling this way for a little over a year and a half now and I’m sick of it, so I want to see what I can do to fix it. I’d like to have an idea of what’s wrong with me before I walk into the doctor’s office though.

1. Worried. Constantly. About everyday things that really aren’t that big of deal. Something as simple as driving to the grocery store calls for about 20 minutes of analysis. I constantly feel like everyone’s staring at me, judging me, and even though I’m surrounded by friends all of the time and people tell me that they absolutely adore me, I constantly question whether or not they, or even my family for that matter, really like me or care about me at all, or if they just hang out with me to be nice. Even when I have no reason to worry, I worry.

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as in once it wears off does it make the anxiety worse? If so and you have someone with anxiety that’s pretty much saying that person can never get drunk or else the anxiety will always worsen?

My name is Andrew, and I am 28. I am an alcoholic. I drink WAY too much. My anxiety is caused by years of drinking alcohol. Has anyone heard of anxiety getting better or going away the longer someone has stayed away from alcohol? I have now only drank 2 times in the last 24 days, that is a record for me.
I do eat healthy if you can believe that. My friends say I am the healthiest alcohol they know.

I know alcohol is a sedative and normally relaxes people, but I also noticed that some people get more hyper when they’re drunk and it seems to have the opposite affect… so is it possible for someone who is already anxious for example to drink and make the anxiety worse and lead to an anxiety attack when drunk?

I have numerous symptoms that i believe are linked to anxiety, and all together they kind of prevent me from having a life.
-Anxiety
-Eye Twitching
-Shaking (mostly hands and arms/upper torso)
-Aches and Pains
-Lazy very tired feeling
-Sleepless nights Tossing and turning (basically almost every night)
-Sweating more than a person should
-Speaking can become difficult
-Sweaty palms
-Stress (hair becomes easy to fall out)
-Occasional depression
-Cant even go in a public bathroom.
etc etc…

I still go out and do things like the average person.. I work out every other day.. Take my vitamins.. even try to get drunk here and there because that seems to cure almost all of those problems at once.
Ive tried relaxants like tea’s and St. johns wort.. but they dont help at all. People will tell me its all in my head, so i try to have a strong influence on myself and have the “i dont give a f*ck” attitude.. but it still doesnt help, I just become a person who doesnt care with anxiety..
I dont want to take over the counter drugs/meds because i believe alcohol is a better answer than that. Ive read up on anxiety, done alot of research and have taken advice from alot of people.. but to be completely honest, its been getting worse..
so at this point,, its like,, whats left? what does one do now? do i have to live like this for the remainder of my years? because that would really suck…

How long does irritability and anxiety last once you stop drinking alcohol.

I’ve been drinking lots of beer for 15 years and recently have been drinking almost daily this past year.

I noticed i get irritable and anxious when I’m not drinking.

What can i expect when I quit?
Finchy : Wow, you are good. I couldn’t ask for a better answer. Every thing you said makes sense.

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How do i cure this? i don’t have any healthcare.

things i’ve tried

*Eating right and exercising – made me feel mildly better, but i used it as a stress vent and ended up being anorexic. I stopped caring about my weight a while ago, and reverted back to normal eating and exercising patterns. Failure.

*Drugs – i’m currently drinking bud lite, and smoking newports. they make me feel a bit better, but i’m destroying my body. I can quit them — but i need some sort’ve new vise in order to do so. I also tried Xanax (anti-anxiety pill) and felt good and floaty, but i stopped due to the illegality of bumming it, and the fact that it’s damaging me as bad as alcohol. I don’t want to hurt my body to help my mind….

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Cipramil is the brand name for Citoplepram and its an anti-depressant but Im taking it for anxiety and panic attacks. Now every one says you shouldnt drink on anti depressants because alcohol is a depressant and it just cancels out the effects. But if Im taking it for anxiety will alcohol stop it from working for me? Im only on it a week so it hasnt kicked in yet but I dont want the alcohol to inhibit the drug in any way…