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Old 11-05-2009, 11:53 AM
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thiskidknows
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is it these i shoul;d be looking at as i get some but not all, i get pins and needles in my hands, i shake badly, i wake up sweating, but cold/clammy too touch, then after a few hours i'm cold. i don't know.. i only drink about a bottle of vodka a night which i think is about 25 unitts that what i been told...I don't know what's wrong with me. nobody does but drinking and using helps. i'm stupid i know. sorry

Cognitive (possible affects):

- Concentration and attention span impaired.
- Confusion
- Racing or recycling thoughts (highly distracting).
- Thoughts scattered and incoherent.
- Rigid thinking and lack of (normal) required flexibility.
- Difficulties with abstract and conceptual thoughts.
- Cause and effect reasoning impaired.
- Themes and threads connecting events not recognised.
- Prioritization (management of one's time and energy) impaired.

Emotional (possible affects):

- Emotionally dead or emotionally hyper.
- Small events of little consequence treated as catastrophic.
- Valent thoughts (not bonded with reality/experience) difficult to shake.
- social withdrawal.
- Recovering alcoholic believes they are going, or have gone, mad.
- Lack of emotion affects personal resolve to stay sober.

Memory (possible affects):

- Recently learned information (within last 30 minutes) quickly forgotten.
- New skills or routines not learned or assimilated naturally (if at all).
- Information retained but then lost after days/weeks.
- Developmental and childhood memories broken (patchy early memory).
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