I have made my mind up, enough is enough. I am going to an AA meeting tomorrow. I want my life back, and my dignity back too. Being a drunk is just no fun any more.
The whole panic and anxiety attacks are taking over and ruling my life. Has any one else been through them? The night sweats are quite grim, but the feelings of loosing it are unbearable.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change and the courage to change those that I can....
Tomorrow will be a new day, I WILL get to an AA meeting.
Scared but hopeful.
hang in there. The fact that your hopeful but feeling that way is so good. I've has anxiety it does get better. Just hold on tight!! Get to meeting talk about it. The help is always there you just need to ask!
The whole going to the meeting is so final...
It is the leaving of of all the real bad habits behind. Which I am desperate to do, but to change 20 years of wrong is soooo hard.
Both my parents are alcoholics, and I really want to break the mold. Thankfully I dont have kids. right now I would of been such a cr*p parent.
But after reading the postings on this site has given me such strength, and tomorrow, AA here I come.
I really can not carry on sinking a bottle of vodka a day, the panic and anxiety attacks are so bad and so recent, that I want my life back.
It is the leaving of of all the real bad habits behind. Which I am desperate to do, but to change 20 years of wrong is soooo hard.
Both my parents are alcoholics, and I really want to break the mold. Thankfully I dont have kids. right now I would of been such a cr*p parent.
But after reading the postings on this site has given me such strength, and tomorrow, AA here I come.
I really can not carry on sinking a bottle of vodka a day, the panic and anxiety attacks are so bad and so recent, that I want my life back.
Im not a drinker,my ex-wife was(and still is). I do know -be careful with telling a doctor about anxiety and panic attacks. If they dont know your a drinker,they might give you drugs like Xanax,or valium. For someone to take those for anxiety and then start drinking can be fatal.
all the best
jack
all the best
jack
hi November the anxiety attacks and panic is pretty new to me also I know where your coming from oct the 8 is my first day that I made up my mind to stop drinking, drinking caused me to experience with cocaine which gave me a heart attack at 30 yrs old and I am 31 now went to the ER today do to Meth which I would not have touch only if I was sober, my main addiction is alcohol and it's a tough one but the panic attacks scare me alot cause I'm always thinking it's the heart attack. I get it pretty much the next day after I had been drinking the night before, but i am here today asking for help to get through with this, cause I am sick and tired of drinking, it's holding me back from everything I want to acomplish in life and I got another chance so I better do it right. Thanks for being here
I had terrible general anxiety and anxiety attacks when I was drinking. Within about 10 days, they all but vanished. The alcohol-anxiety link is well documented and I know it exists from personal experience. Quitting the booze could kill two birds with one stone.
Brandon
Brandon
Alcohol is definitely linked with Anxiety & Panic Attacks.
I suffered with this for 15 years. I had enough when I finally developed epileptic seizures from all the years of abuse. I drank to numb my emotions. I drank to "feel good". I also drank to hide from the problems that I created by drinking!
For God-sake...and your own, stop drinking. Stop drinking. Stop drinking. Take B vitamins and develop a regular Spiritual path to sobriety ~
D.R. Bennett
Enlightened Teacher
I suffered with this for 15 years. I had enough when I finally developed epileptic seizures from all the years of abuse. I drank to numb my emotions. I drank to "feel good". I also drank to hide from the problems that I created by drinking!
For God-sake...and your own, stop drinking. Stop drinking. Stop drinking. Take B vitamins and develop a regular Spiritual path to sobriety ~
D.R. Bennett
Enlightened Teacher
best wishes for you, my last drink was in March of 81!!!!! I don't miss it and have lived quite easily without(i'm here because i have had trouble with pot again the last 12 years). I went to hundreds of AA meetings and IT WORKED.
Don't give up. Most of my drinking had to do with panic attacks and anxiety. It was easier to pick up the bottle than feel those overwheming feelings of hopelessnes, anxiety and fear I was losing control. When I would go to work I though I was going to pass out or have a heart attack. I went into rehap about 2 years ago and for a time it changed my life. I thought I had it beat, but it took me down once again. I feel like a failure to every one I know, I now am going back to AA and feel like I can regain the life that I had in sobriety. Please don't feel alone. That is what made me feel that I had no where to turn. You are amongst friends who know exactly what you are going through. Please let me here from you. I am only one step away from losing it all again myself if I do not change my alcoholic way of thinking.
What ever you do don't take any medicine for the anxiety it will make things worst in the long run. Doctor gave me Ativan and it made everything worst in the long run.
Hi November
How are things with you?
I'm sorry I haven't done too well with keeping motivated these last few weeks. No excuses - there are none!
Today is a new day, I am going to try again. I feel sick as a pig this morning (do pigs get sick?)... nausea and guilt.
I hope you did go to AA and that it is doing it for you, and sorting out the panic attacks.
Let me know how you are
xx sc
How are things with you?
I'm sorry I haven't done too well with keeping motivated these last few weeks. No excuses - there are none!
Today is a new day, I am going to try again. I feel sick as a pig this morning (do pigs get sick?)... nausea and guilt.
I hope you did go to AA and that it is doing it for you, and sorting out the panic attacks.
Let me know how you are
xx sc
