Is alcohol a trigger for anxiety attacks? Seems like after a night of drinking my anxiety acts up for 1-2 days. =(

It’s long been known that heavy drinking often goes hand in hand with depression , but there has been debate about which came first — the drinking or the depression . One theory is that depressed people turned to alcohol in an attempt to …

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I am close to having a panic attack. I can’t stop thinking, or sleep for that matter. I just want to be able to have some peace before I sleep but nothing is providing it. Would it be bad to drink? What could be the consequences?

The medication I take for my anxiety is called Buspirone.

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 by William Griffith Wilson. Bill grew up in a in a small quarry town in Vermont. When he was ten, his hard-drinking father abandoned him and moved to Canada. Bills mother followed suit when she left him with his grandparents and moved to Boston to study osteopathic medicine. He was educated at the prestigious Burton and Burr academy before joining the Army at the onset of US involvement in W.W. I. It was in the military that he discovered that he didn’t just like alcohol, he loved it. As a soldier, and then as a businessman, Bill drank to alleviate his depression and to celebrate his Wall Street success. Bill met his future wife, Lois Burnham, who was four years older than he, during the summer of 1913 while sailing on Vermont’s Emerald Lake; two years later the couple became engaged. In 1918 he and Lois were married. Soon after the wedding, Bill and Lois began touring the country, evaluating companies for potential investors. From the outside looking in, Bill appeared to have the world in the palm of his hand. However, by 1933 Bill and Lois were living in her parents’ house on Clinton Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. He had become an unemployable individual who had a severe drinking problem. In 1933 he had to be committed to the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City on four different occasions. He was eventually told that he would either die from his alcoholism or have to be locked up permanently. According to Bill, while lying in a hospital bed for the fourth time depressed and despairing, he had the sensation of a bright light, a feeling of ecstasy, and a new serenity. He never drank again for the remainder of his life.

Encouraged by a friend who stopped drinking, Bill attended meetings offered by the Oxford Group, which was an evangelical society founded in Britain by Pennsylvanian Frank Buchman. Bill joined the group with the hopes of helping others overcome alcoholism; however, his efforts were less than successful. During a failed business trip to Akron, Ohio, Bill was tempted to drink again and decided that to remain sober he needed to help another alcoholic. He called phone numbers on a church directory and eventually secured an introduction to Dr. Bob smith an alcoholic Oxford Group member.

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If you are alcohol dependent you have a strong desire for alcohol. Sometimes the desire is overwhelming. You have great difficulty in controlling your drinking.

In addition, your body is so used to lots of alcohol that you start to develop ‘withdrawal’ symptoms 3-8 hours after your last drink, as the effect of the alcohol wears off. So, even if you want to stop drinking, it is difficult because of the withdrawal symptoms.

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If you can ever get someone drinking at an unhealthy level to slow down or stop altogether, you may well spare them from the pains of alcoholism, the requirement of professional treatment, and a lifelong battle with the disease.

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I am very stressed out and I drink maybe once a year…Does drinking really help reduce stress?

I was tested for allergies a year ago. It turns out I am allergic to yeast and sugar cane. When I drink beer, sake or wine the hangovers are intense with arthritic pain and muscle aches, depression, fatigue and IBS. When I drink distilled alcohol like vodka or tequila, the hangover is still intense but without the yeast component it is much better. I still get depressed the next day.

Why are my hangovers so intense? I think because my body cannot handle the yeast or the sugar (that is in converted from alcohol or from the contents in cocktails).

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Will a couple beers or glasses of wine help to reduce my fever by a little bit? I’m not talking about self medication, but I had a couple drinks and noticed that my temp dropped from 99.2 to 97.9

Lately, just the past 6 month or so ive been experiencing blackouts after drinking Red Wine. Ive never had this happen to me before and its beggining to frighten me! Ive been under alot of stress these days and wondering if mabye that could be playing a big part in these blackouts! Its strange cause while blacked out I can still carry conversations and walk around normally! I am scared to even drink a drop anymore.