Hangovers and anxiety

[hanna]

I love drinking(maybe a bit too much) but the problem is the next day.I get extremely anxious the next day and get panic attacks and also my heart beat will be way to hard and fast it feels terrible and i cant sit still or sleep.i also get really scared ill have a heart attack..and god forbid i drink vodka and red bull did that Monday night and can honestly say the next day was one of the worst of my life..dose anyone else have this problem and do you have any advise?am pretty certain my anxiety is linked to dyspraxia since i have no reason really to be anxious.

[Tom fod]

I've noticed this too I enjoy a drink with friends but next morning can be on a complete downer.

Guess is the difficult answer is cut out the booze but social life is important too and all too often involves a drink or two 8-)

[Catwoman42]

I don't get hangovers. But Red Bull is full of caffeine which may be partly why you feel so bad the next day.

[Tim G]

I have had simmler experances with booze (I am not going to go into much deatail), the thing with alchole is that firstly its a depresent so like when your drunk you can have massive mood swings the same can happen when your hungover as the alchole is still in your system, due to the phisicial affects after effects of booze then this can further affect things.
Alochole naturlie has a lot of callories (energy) and this can make people not sleep and the caffine in the redbull can highten this due to the caffine. If your prone to axianty (many dyspraxics are) then this makes it worse and can last for a while so that probably explanes the lack of sleep, mood swings and anxianty.

This is all asusimg that you experance this after you have been drinking - therefor it verry lickly to be the drink.

I know the ovovious answer is to cut down on the drink but I know thats not as easy as it seams but if you really want to then you have to think about why your drinking in the first place and try and limet your drink on a night out.

[hanna]

I have had simmler experances with booze (I am not going to go into much deatail), the thing with alchole is that firstly its a depresent so like when your drunk you can have massive mood swings the same can happen when your hungover as the alchole is still in your system, due to the phisicial affects after effects of booze then this can further affect things.
Alochole naturlie has a lot of callories (energy) and this can make people not sleep and the caffine in the redbull can highten this due to the caffine. If your prone to axianty (many dyspraxics are) then this makes it worse and can last for a while so that probably explanes the lack of sleep, mood swings and anxianty.

This is all asusimg that you experance this after you have been drinking - therefor it verry lickly to be the drink.

I know the ovovious answer is to cut down on the drink but I know thats not as easy as it seams but if you really want to then you have to think about why your drinking in the first place and try and limet your drink on a night out.

well im deff prone to anxiety and mood swings anyway but drink makes it wayy worse because i cant controll myself when drunk.iv decided to give up vodka and redbull completely.im just gonna drink it straight or with jucie from now on.well i drink alot because all my friends do 2 be honest.we all go out every tues,thurs and sat nyt atleast but i tink its a bit much for me.i live in ireland and i know its a cliché but irish people do drink alot.its out of habbit aswell because been drinking every weekend since was 14.one thing i can say that is positive about being anxious is that its kept me away from drugs because i no i would completely lose it if got into them haha...you said youve had similar expreiences could i ask how you deal with it???

[Tom fod]

This is something I've thought about a fair bit lately as bit self conscious of my beer belly.
There are lots of things to try but hard part is they seem to involve a bit too much self control for my liking. It's not always one of my strong points. I'd suggest trying a combination of the following:

Try to have less nights out.

Try to drink more slowly and don't be afraid to say no thanks I'm ok when offered another drink.

Go out later so you have less drinking time.

Have the courage to use work as an excuse 'I have work in the morning I don't need a hangover so I'll have a soft drink this time.

I've been trying to limit myself to two pints at one sitting. Yes occasionally I fail (like Fri and last night and I do try to go out some of the time just less often.

Keep any money you save in a pot or savings account and you can see how much you're saving. Don't celebrate with a boozy night out though (hic)

Find out if any of your friends are similarly concerned Maybe you can work together to have quieter nights out.

Go teetotal or as close to it as you can for a while.

It won't be easy but try to reduce it in small steps. Try not to beat yourself if it goes a bit wrong sometimes and try to analyse why that happened so you can try and come up ways to avoid or at least change situations.

Try drinking with some of your quieter friends/those who are the slower drinkers.

I quite like pub quizzes as I tend to drink more slowly if I'm thinking. I guess I'm saying is analyse when and how you drink and move towards ways in which you can gradually reduce the amount unless you think you can just stop.

All the best

Tom

[Tim G]

.you said youve had similar expreiences could i ask how you deal with it???

Well basickly I was at unie and I partyed hard so there were a lot of drunken nights and good and bad experances due to this and it had got me into messy situations. I felt like when I started on a night out or drinking it just went on and I was allways the one who was the one who dident care about the next day, what is going on, money etc - all thies things that I have difculitie with when I am sober and when drunk its a diffrent story.

Basickly I droped out of unie due to a number of things but they all come down to dyspraxicia and not having many frends (or people I hung around with should I say) around, wanting to sort myself out and not wanting to get back into thies situations have made me think about it more and cut down.
It's not as though I don't drink or wouldent have a drink with a mate its more that I dont want to get back into thoes situations and mess myself up all the time - I just dont need it.

So really what has made me cut down is a chnage in location and situation and thus taking away the possablitie.

[hanna]

ok thanks for the advice....is really hard though because am torn between enjoying my youth living life to the full and being sensible knowing whats good for me in the long run...am so jealous of everyone else they seem to be able to do it all with no negative consequences....

[Tim G]

I understand your situation but from my view of it all is that you really have to understand and know your limets and dysablities and be sensabable.

I know its diffcult and jellious seeing others doing what they want and being fine but they arnt dyspraxic and unforantly like all dysablities we have to agnolage what oure limets are and what we can and can't do. Understanding this now and listening to yourself insted of everyone else will majorley benerfit you in the future and now.

I am not saying that you should give up everything but try to understand, situations better and what you can and can't do. However I know this is easer said then done as being dyspraxic makes us vunarable, easley distracted and easley lead astray and not thinking about the posablities of things.

[hanna]

yah you have a good point but i dont really see dyspraxia as a disability and wont let it get in the way of doing what i want..also im not easily led astray and i dont really think i am any more vulnerable then any other 19 year old girls..to be honest i have a lot more sense then most the people i know and iv never been one 2 do anything because of peer pressure ect...but i know i need to realise my limits because unlike some people i cant do it all and have to learn to juggle collage work and socialising ect

[Tim G]

I was talking from my own experances - dyspraxicia affects us in diffrent ways - some find it more of a dysablitie then others and the things it affects one person with my not be the case or to a lesser extent with another person.

[Tara Gonzalez]

Medication is not the best way to reduce anxiety, you want to talk to a psychologist and they will help you with cognitive therapy. Cognitive therapy is a permanent solution where as medication stops working after you stop taking.
Best of Luck.