Alcohol and health anxiety

[warkie]

I haven't felt this bad for ages,I feel like I'm going to have a fit,the feeling is weird,I had quite a lot of alcohol last night and had no tea,has anyone else experienced this symptom? Xx

[Jeff1943]

But you didn't actually have a fit, did you warkie, and you won't have a fit because this is anxiety and anxiety can make you feel like you're going to have a fit but it does not have the power to make you have a fit. So first ask yourself what it is in your life that has made you feel anxious, if you can identify the cause do everything in your power to neutralise it.

But often the anxiety is self perpetuating regardless of what started it in the first place. The symptoms of anxiety cause fear that causes more anxiety that causes more fear and so on in a seemingly never ending vicious circle.

But it can be ended, you can recover from anxiety disorder, by breaking the vicious circle. Only you can do it and you CAN do it. Whatever your symptoms of anxiety (like this feeling you're going to have a fit) they are in fact fake symptoms generated by your nervous system being constantly bombarded with fear. So next time you feel like you're going to have a fit, or whatever other the symptom might be, remain calm and don't respond to it with fear. Just let every muscle in your limbs and body relax and go limp and imagine there's a big muscle where your brain us and let that relax and go limp too. Let the bad feeling wash over you like the tide washes over a rock on the shore. Just as the sea cannot harm the rock so the fake symptoms cannot harm you.

In this way you break the vicious circle by ACCEPTING the bad feeling and with practice and persistance and letting time pass your nerves will recover and the fake symptoms like your feeling you're going to have a fit will surely and certainly cease.

[Cat33 in reply to Jeff1943]

Thank you for this wonderful post Jeff Fantastic advice