Last night i had a great idea that i would have a couple o drinks with my fiance, I thought that because i have been avoiding drinking anything besides water for months that i would be ok to have a couple drinks. However today my head hurt so bad, i felt spacey all day, and didnt want to go to work, because i felt so weird and didnt want to have a panic attack on the way home from my job. I got anxious just riding up the street by myself to the store and started feeling incapable again. Does anyone have these same or similar reactions when they use alcohol, and can it be assumed that us with anxiety just need to steer clear of this? Help

Billy, I dont know if you are on medication, but I know that with the first antidepre. I was on, booze boosted the effects of the meds but then the next day the meds would't work as well. I'm on lexapro now and I feel like crap the next day if I drink. In fact often I feel "spacey" (not drunk) after I have one drink. Overly numb is the only way I can describe it. Not the relaxed, mellow feeling I get with one or two drinks when I wasn't on meds. Hope this helps.

Alcohol affects people differently, for me personally if I have 1 beer Im sick for a day or two afterwords, last week I drank 2 nights in a row and I was sick for almost a week, so how you feel reallu just depends on how you react to it, medication also has a big deal to do with it, you really want to be careful with some meds, alcohol can seriously screw with the drugs actions

Hey everyone, I jsut started the program a few days back and has given me some kind of comfort and knowledge of how anxiety end depression can drown you to the point of losing it. I'm trying to control my drinking for sometime now and it has put me back on achiving my golas. Now, finally I acepted that I needed help from all of this, depression and alchol dependency, but as I wait for my psychiatric evaluation(9/8) I been drinking way too much, is not that I enjoy it it just numbs it a bit to fall asleep for at least 3 or 4 hours in a row, I'm planing on quiting right after the docs visit, I'm on lesson 3 and it has gotten me at least to cope day to day, but like I said, still drinking and smoking and its been a bad habit for 25 years, I quited a few times just to fall back again when I started feeling depressed or an emotional problem. Can't say that I feel 25% better but the few things that I learn so far has been very helpful and conforting, hope everyone is doing good...