I just can't believe that alcohol withdrawal can be this bad. Other times, it has only taken me 4-5 days to get over the majority of symptoms and start feeling good. The last time, it took 7 days. Today I'm on day 8# and when I woke up this morning, my brain was completely scrambled and I felt like I had been lobotomized during the night. I slept fitfully and had lots of twisted and very vivid nightmares.
My days are almost surreal...like I'm living in another dimension or something. Both my mind and body feel very strange at times. Lots of anxiety (particularly after coffee in the mornings). A few times I have thought I saw something crawling up the wall but this could have just been "perpheral illusions" (or whatever it's called - it's supposed to be normal) or maybe I'm going into some sort of psychotic state although I'm not seeing faces in the wall, hearing voices, etc.
Anyway, I usually feel my worst during the day and it subsides sometime in the evening and I feel fairly normal and relaxed. I don't know if this is caused by alcohol withdrawal, meds or a combination of the two. I just feel really out of it and strange.
Please help me understand what is going on and if this is normal because I am really freaking out over it and did'nt expect to feel this way at all 8 days into my detox.
Thanks so much and I hope everyone here had a FANTASTIC Christmas!!
- Need4Change