Hi, my name is Charley and I have an alcohol problem.
Okay so it’s not what you are thinking but I do have an alcohol issue; I am a naturally anxious person, this stems from my personality type but it has been fuelled by the things I have encountered in my short time on this planet thus far. People who deal with anxiety may also deal with the problem most commonly known as Hangover Anxiety.
If I drink heavily, as in get past tipsy and in to drunk, I tend to wake up the next morning with an unequivocal sense of dread and well impending doom. I run everything that happened through my head on a loop, picking out all the moments where I made a fool of myself and irritated everyone around me. This is probably not that strange for your average post drinking life reflection, the abnormal thing in my case is that this feeling can last for up to 7 days after the night. It’s not your typical “God I was an idiot last night” moment, it is a crippling sense of self-doubt which can completely overhaul my ability to function properly. This is a problem and I am not ashamed of this problem I experience.
How am I going to deal with this problem?
I think it is clear to everyone at this point that the first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it, now I need to put certain practices in place to protect my mental wellbeing. I have made the decision to not get drunk* for a while and to monitor my anxiety as a result. By drunk I mean; I will have a glass of wine or two with a meal, I will have the odd cocktail or G&T or a cheeky Pimm’s in the summer. What I will not do is get past tipsy and to drunk, if I continue to have these anxious feelings I will further adjust my drinking. For now I think this is a good way to move forward.
I know that my plan for this blog is to use it for book reviews, tags and general book related content but I felt like sharing this part of my life with you because it isn’t talked about much. Drinking is something we are told is unhealthy all the time, yet we are made to feel like we are wrong for not drinking alcohol. Hangover Anxiety is a thing and I will not ignore it any longer.
Let me know if you have ever heard of this phenomena.
Thanks for reading.
Charley
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Okay so it’s not what you are thinking but I do have an alcohol issue; I am a naturally anxious person, this stems from my personality type but it has been fuelled by the things I have encountered in my short time on this planet thus far. People who deal with anxiety may also deal with the problem most commonly known as Hangover Anxiety.
If I drink heavily, as in get past tipsy and in to drunk, I tend to wake up the next morning with an unequivocal sense of dread and well impending doom. I run everything that happened through my head on a loop, picking out all the moments where I made a fool of myself and irritated everyone around me. This is probably not that strange for your average post drinking life reflection, the abnormal thing in my case is that this feeling can last for up to 7 days after the night. It’s not your typical “God I was an idiot last night” moment, it is a crippling sense of self-doubt which can completely overhaul my ability to function properly. This is a problem and I am not ashamed of this problem I experience.
How am I going to deal with this problem?
I think it is clear to everyone at this point that the first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it, now I need to put certain practices in place to protect my mental wellbeing. I have made the decision to not get drunk* for a while and to monitor my anxiety as a result. By drunk I mean; I will have a glass of wine or two with a meal, I will have the odd cocktail or G&T or a cheeky Pimm’s in the summer. What I will not do is get past tipsy and to drunk, if I continue to have these anxious feelings I will further adjust my drinking. For now I think this is a good way to move forward.
I know that my plan for this blog is to use it for book reviews, tags and general book related content but I felt like sharing this part of my life with you because it isn’t talked about much. Drinking is something we are told is unhealthy all the time, yet we are made to feel like we are wrong for not drinking alcohol. Hangover Anxiety is a thing and I will not ignore it any longer.
Let me know if you have ever heard of this phenomena.
Thanks for reading.
Charley
P.S. I have just published this blog over on my bloglovin account, give it a follow!
Follow my blog with Bloglovin
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