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So for about the past 2 or so years, I've been struggling with this strange manifestation of anxiety.
Essentially about 7 out of 10 times I go on a night out where alcohol is involved I will get really anxious.
This usually leads to an underlying feeling of nausea when i'm not even slightly drunk, with the feeling only going away after throwing up, with it even coming back later a few hours when I try to start drinking again.
I could do something with the same people that doesn't involve alcohol and feel fine, but the moment its involved even if i'm with those same people who could be my closest friends, the feeling begins to manifest.
>just stop drinking haha
I don't really want to do this though, theere has been a good amount of times where I could drink fine and I had a good experience being drunk, yet I couldn't understand why the feeling didn't manifest.
Does anyone have any idea what could remedy this apart from what I said above? Or has anyone experienced something similar and managed to overcome it?
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I had the same thing but with marijuana (don't drink so much personally).
Before I'd smoke I'd feel very anxious, as if my body was telling me it did not want weed inside of it, saying basically "this shit isn't good for you, we both know it".
I then started taking it in the form of cannaoil, which my body did not protest to. In retrospect it may have been the tobacco (rolled with it) that my body protested against, not necessarily the weed.
I think it might be your subconscious trying to ween you off alcohol, or something like that.
I mean, sure it can be fun to have a few drinks occasionally, but if it turns into a habit then shit gets shit.
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I've had this anxiety too and I think it stemed from my mom habit of demonizing alcohol and all drugs. I would get invited out to drink and would try to find a way out because in my head I was thinking it would ruin me. However, I got over it by just saying fuck it and drinking. Telling myself that even if I just waste one day doing nothing productive I will be hanging out with my friends. Now tho I tend to drink a bit more freely and sometimes when I'm a bit sad. Respect alcohol tho. Don't want to form and addiction but I think you would know when drinking is getting out of hand. Take care and don't stress out to much.
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>just stop drinking haha
>I don't really want to do this though, theere has been a good amount of times where I could drink fine and I had a good experience being drunk, yet I couldn't understand why the feeling didn't manifest.
Is there any reason you feel the need to keep drinking besides "I used to be able to"?
It might have started as a one time incident and turned into a self-fullfilling prophecy kind of thing.
You got anxious about drinking once, and now when you feel compelled to drink you become anxious about getting anxious again... which causes anxiety.
I was in a simillar situation once when I became so stressed it made me sick. Which in turn made me stressed about being sick, which made me get sick again.
I didnt get better until I took a day off doing nothing to destress and reset myself.
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I'm OP but more extreme
I get panic attacks whenever I enter a room with alcohol, or anyone drinking alcohol.
Its not fun.
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