Hi everyone I’m in my 20s and having an anxiety attack because of the almost everyday drinking I’ve been doing recently. Nights are starting to be filled with anxiety that I’ll never be able to fully stop now. I’m hungover often especially these past two weeks. My family has a serious background of alcoholism and I don’t want it to take over my life at such a young age. Please tell me there’s hope for me. I’m tired of raiding the pantry for alcohol and hiding what I drink. I’m scared of what can result. Thank you for any help
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Try a breathing app along with sounds of rain on you tube or stress relief app. I go through the same thing. Try yoga, run you need to sweat the alcohol out of your system. You will feel better. Breathing is a big part of our minds.
Good luck to you, you can do it.
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Make a plan to stop. Get alcohol out of the house.
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Hi Teresa! The beauty is that you don’t have to drink today. My suggestion is to get plugged into a program: AA, The Luckiest Club, SMART Recovery, Recovery Dharma, Women for Sobriety, Celebrate Recovery. These are just a few of the programs available to help support you in your recovery. I got sober in my 20’s and have no regrets about it.
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I have very similar issues and it's worse when going through withdrawal. I have found that magnesium helps me a lot! Also grounding mechanisms like multiplication, or being very intentional with using my senses like finding 5 things of one color, 4 sounds, find 3 different smells (Hopefully good!) Feel 2 texture items, and then eat something yummy slowly. If you Google grounding coping mechanisms there are a lot of them. Distractions are good!
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One thing that I have learned anything any issues that I’ve talked it over with my sponsor and then I talk with my other sponsor and then we all talked it over and agreed upon seeing a psychiatrist but I was told to see a therapist. Which has been wonderful help me with my anxiety which I did not know that is what I have I’ve suffered with from years.
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There's hope for you. My dad was an alcoholic. My brother nor I drink alcohol.
You are not your family/ancestors. You can break those generational curses.
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The alcohol is causing your anxiety to be worse. It's a nasty trick.
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Sounds like you are working on your diagnosis and I’m definitely not going to do it for you. I can tell you that the dread I felt in my suspicion that I might be an alcoholic turned into complete freedom when I accepted it. I am truly a grateful alcoholic, because without it I would never have found the program of AA. It has changed my life in the most amazing ways.
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Thank you everyone!! I reached out for support today and have therapist and doctor appointments in the upcoming days. I cannot thank you all enough. I know it will be tough but knowing there’s a time when I don’t have the dread and anxiety and pretty much overall sick feeling from drinking is making it easy to stay away even if it’s only the 2nd day.
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Teresa, welcome to Loosid! You’ve made a great decision coming here and talking about your problem with alcohol. I too have a problem with alcohol. There’s hope for people like you and I and the rest of the Loosid community. I’m a little over 25 months sober. My journey wasn’t pretty but I can say the help I received from the mental hospital, treatment center, Alcoholics Anonymous, my sponsor and this beautiful app Loosid, oh and of course God himself I would be either homeless or dead. It took me one question that I was told to ask myself “what’s one thing you can do different?” I had to really think on that one. I believe getting honest with myself was the ultimate answer to that daunting question.
I love AA. The big book as it’s referenced at meetings is a book that teaches us how to live a better life once we see the damage we caused with our drinking. We clean up our past and then learn to live righteous by being kind and loving to all things earth. Even when others aren’t. We take our own inventory not others. We learn to sit in our emotions, to feel them sober and to talk with other alcoholics about our disease. The only membership is the desire to stop drinking. No dues no fees. Just pure love for the newcomer and old time members. The good news is if AA isn’t for you, there’s life ring, recovery Dharma, smart recovery and NA or some others I may have forgotten or don’t know about yet.
I hope I touched something in your heart that will trigger you to continue to seek help. Have a wonderful night. Sober just for today. One day at a time.
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You’re not alone. The feeling of being helpless is horrible but you have soo many like yourself that go through the same. Start that therapy and once you start the meetings continue to go. I need to get help again myself. Im going to call soon. Goodluck and remember that Life is Beautiful.! You have soo much to live for soo dont STOP!
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Hi love, admitting I had a problem was the hardest thing I ever had to do and being young (I’m 22) made it even harder because I felt like no one my age was sober. I went to my first inpatient rehab at 20 years old. Unfortunately I decided I was “too young” to be an addict and went out and did more research as they say. I ultimately came to the conclusion that I am absolutely powerless over drugs and alcohol. Asking for help is so hard and I commend you for doing it! I really recommend trying a support group they truly work if you work it! I decided for me the best course was to come back to inpatient rehab because the first 30 days are really hard and I needed medical detox. There is absolutely hope for you, you have already shown you are capable by asking for help and admitting you have a problem. Recovery isn’t for those who need it it’s for those who do it! Take it easy and utilize those in recovery for guidance! I believe in you!
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Thank you! Realizing that it’s an addiction regardless of how young I am is so empowering to know and take in. It’s powerful to know that I can be proactive and really envision what my life would be like years after this if I don’t take control now. Especially the people in my life it can hurt. Thank you again!!
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Thank you I needed to hear that the follow through is so important. The first step to reach out felt so easy but now that I have appointments for a week from now I need to remember to keep it up and not fall back and think that I’ll be okay without support. Thank you!!! Life is so beautiful.
We need people.very hard doing it a lone. I was 26 when I got to aa now 61. Aa 