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Old 09-17-2014, 02:53 PM
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Dee74
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Hi Tai

As you can see there are two main experiences with alcoholism and anxiety.

If your anxiety started with your drinking, then stopping drinking often fixes the problem - no immediately...but eventually

If you anxiety predates your drinking (or even maybe was a cause of it) then obviously you're going to need to address that anxiety.

some people see their Dr or a counsellor...I didn't go that route myself tho. I found some breathing exercises helped me to deal with a lot of my anxiety - as did exercise.

I also found that the more I engaged with problems, instead of reatreating to the bottle, the more I thought of myself as capable and that fear of failure I used to have fell away a lot.

I'm not cured...but I'm the best I've ever been and I'm ok with that

Hope you find a solution that fits you

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