Alcohol Withdrawal Panic Attacks, Need Help.?

by andyluke

Question by Nik: Alcohol withdrawal panic attacks, need help.?
So, i’m 22 and have been drinking almost everyday since i was around 19-20. Last month i was in the movies when this sudden fear/sense of impending doom rushed over me. My heart started to race, i got super shaky, and just had to get out. So i went outside, tried to calm down. It didnt help. I was soo scared because i didnt know what was happening, i thought i was drugged! So i called my mother to come pick me up (was too shaky to drive) and she took me to the ER. The doctor said i was probably going through alcohol withdrawal, “How can that be doc? I just drank last night”. Apparently my body needed more and more alcohol, so i was going through withdrawal while drinking……….That panic attack was the worst feeling in the world, literally.

So i quit drinking for 3 days then got back to getting drunk everyday. Then yesterday AT WORK i had another panic attack, this one was more severe and my heart was beating soo fast i almost passed out. The worst feeling in the world once again came back to me. So i left work and went back to the ER. They told me the same thing “You need to stop drinking, your too young for this to be happening to you, you have your whole life ahead of you!”

Yesterday was pretty bad all day, and today im a little bit more calm, but im super tense and literally scared for my sanity because everytime i have a panic attack, it makes me feel like im losing my mind. Ive never been more scared.

So im back where i started, 2 days sober and hoping for some inspiration to keep going the distance. Because i hate being this scared, and hopefully some of you can relate to what im going through.

Thanks guys :)

Best answer:

Answer by Julia
you need to see your Dr as clearly you are having a lot of very unpleasant alcohol with drawl symptom and you need to be medically monitored. usually people go into hospital to detox. your Dr can prescribe medication to help with the with drawl side effect to get you over the initial “detox”… sounds like you could do with some therapy so you can work on the under lying issues of why you have been getting so drunk all the time. get through the physical with drawl first, then work on the other stuff.

Answer by IcyBlushySlushy
I use to drink off my sorrow, and I’m only 17. Fuzziness and warmth was so addicting I couldn’t drop it. I was afraid of being sober. Phasing out and when frustration overwhelmed me I’d spazz at my closest friends and family. I still get the temptation. Along with packs of cigarettes. YOU AINT ALONE IN THE ADDICTION KEEP FIGHTING. A 2 week relationship helped me out a lot, she’d help me out and had good heart. Till I figured she didn’t deserve this and broke up with her, and back to my liquor crunkin out.

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