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Old 11-05-2017, 07:03 AM
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While early sobriety does cause increased heart rate (which is exactly what anxiety feels like) it can be mitigated.

That's why we keep saying "go to the doctor" - because then you would have a medical tool to keep heart rate normal for those first few days until your body stabilizes.

Just be careful, OJ.

The bad thing is that I could talk myself back into drinking with the kind of thinking you are doing right now - anxiety is uncomfortable, but it passes. At some point, you have to be just done and learn to self-soothe.
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