Hello, no idea what I’m doing here more sober curious and have found that drinking for me leads to anxiety and depression, anyone else? Also situations that I would never put myself into and then bathing in guilt and anger towards myself the next day…. I don’t know if I belong here but looking for any type of direction I guess..
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It was a vicious circle, my relationship between booze, anxiety, and depression. It became a a sequence of reciprocal cause and effect, and the elements ruthlessly intensified and aggravated each other.
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Cause and effect, for folks like me drinking subdued the anxiety and depression. So it was the opposite.
The situational stuff does end up causing extra issues like you mention.
In your case, quitting alcohol would be ideal because it may cause the anxiety and depression to go away.
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Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry. I was responding to a completely different post. I've deleted the post and will respond with what I intended for a response to your post.
You’re right, i guess I’m selfish and shouldn’t have joined a support group, i didn’t know people like you would be on here
All seriousness. Sorry. I don't know how that happened.
I had typed a well thought out response to you, so ill try to summarize.
You're at a point where a lot of people get on their life. Or at least the people I know. Many see the issue and the damage it's causing and make the choice to change. Others have life changes direct a change- work, kids, spouses, school, or just getting tired of being sick and tired.
Others just get older and wiser and learn how to drink more responsible in order to enjoy the benefits of socially responsible drinking without the after morning blues.
A great thing you have going for you is that you still have feelings of self anger, regret, etc. A lot of us eventually learned to replace that with manipulation, blame, and denial. I drank to the point I gave zero shits about what I did, and anyone that questioned me had the problem, not me. Drinking owned me.
Alcoholic and depression/anxiety are often very hard to know what came first. It's hard for medical professionals to even tell. No matter what was first, ultimately the alcoholic will drink until they feel nothing, no depression, no anxiety.
If my description is what I, an alcoholic, was like is what you consider "belonging" you probably don't want to belong .... And I mean that in the kindest way
What happened?
You don’t seem selfish…you strike me as self-aware, Jordan.
Your original post makes sense. Alcohol is a depressant. It increased my depression, anxiety.
It made everything pretty horrible, that is an understatement.
Hope you will return to the app. There are some great tools and helpful people on Loosid.
I strongly recommend that you stay, Jordan.
Even if only as a wallflower, you’ll hear great stories of loss, heartbreak and heartache; mending of friendships and families, redemption of souls, lives seen through new sets of eyes.
I feel exactly the same way…just downloaded at 4:30 am … sleepless and guilty as heck. What’s my problem?!?
Thanks i appreciate it.
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Thank you appreciate it
Alcohol does the same too me
I just didn’t know where to start … if I’m not in right place someone can tell me i don’t belong
Hi, I’ve found the same issues with drinking. The problem for me has been realizing it, stop drinking, only to go back to drinking. I’ve found after 14 days of sobriety that my mood is better. Even though I’m dealing some kind of virus, my mood is still better than it would be with drinking alcohol. I find relaxing tea to help.
Oh, and yes you belong. We all do
Thanks Jack
TY for sharing. I came to recovery thinking I knew everything so when I hit the not knowing period it was actually progress but it didn’t feel like it immediately.
Thanks Tony
Welcome Jordan, you've found a good place.
The day after drinking I’d have panic attacks. I’d be extremely on edge and with a foggy feeling. Within a week of no drinks everything started returning to normal.