Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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does anyone know what effects alcohol has on anxiety?
deleted_user
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For me, alcohol only makes my anxiety worse...whish really sux because I like to go out and have a good time. I drink to make my anxiety go away and it does while i'm drinking. But the next day, when I'm tires and hung over...my anxiety is ten times worse. Anxiety and alcohol definitely don't mix. That's just my experience...but a beer every once in a while isn't going to hurt anything.
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Alcohol is supposed ot be a depressor, so it's supposed to calm down anxiety, but I agree with emmysue about the next day being a lot more anxious due to the hangover.
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deleted_user
Alcohol makes me depressed the next day after drinking. While I'm drinking I feel great though. I don't drink much anymore but used to.
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sometimes alcohol is the only thing i can do to get through my anxieties,but the next day you feel ten times worse.hope you can see the horrible pattern.
deleted_user
deleted_user
yeah, now thinking about, alcohol is the same for me,
but i feel like when i'm having an attack and have had alcohol it makes it much worse to fight thru it, has anyone had that?
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In my case it made it 1,000 times worse . . . and as others have posted, the vicious cycle of alcohol/anxiety/more alcohol was unbearable.
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there's a million ways to calm one's nerves. when i am worried, it is a sign that my plan to solve a problem sucks and to get out the paper and pencil and come up with a better, more practical one. maybe, after that is done and set in place, i will have a beer or two to celebrate.
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i have less anxiety when i drink. but it can also make me very depressed if i have too much
DogCrazy
DogCrazy
It is only a short fix, the next day the anxiety is allways worse because of it.
It,s a visious circle, if you dont usually drink i would try and stay away from it love.
warmest Wishes!
4mytasha
4mytasha
Works GREAT for anxiety. That's why I started at 14 and became an alcoholic! :(
But it won't CURE anxiety as you have to know, right?
AND....don't drink with meds if you're on anti-depressants as alcohol IS a depressant which you also know, right?? :)
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