Bzzzzt!
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Join Date: Jun 2012
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Bzzzzt!
Two weeks and nearly no withdrawal symptoms and then comes today. It feels like someone has shoved a live electrical wire into my head and it has me highly agitated and annoyed with most all of humanity today. The fact that I am normally such a laid back person that co-workers and friends have at times told me I am not serious enough or intense enough for my position in the company makes this agitation all that much more... well, Annoying I guess! My head feels like it is about to explode from the blood pressure being sky high in it (not to worry, my blood pressure is normal, I had it checked on the way home). The fact that I made it through the day and I am safely back at home without having physically choked someone to death is nothing short of AMAZING!
Phew. OK I feel a little bit better now having vented. Thanks for listening.
Phew. OK I feel a little bit better now having vented. Thanks for listening.
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Thanks DG, Anna & Change. It certainly feels better to have maintained and made it through the "public" part of my day and be able to be home and work on overcoming the anxiety I've been feeling all day in the safety of my home.
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I had a similar experience within a couple weeks of sobriety and I've seen a lot of others talk about it, too. It didn't last very long, but I noticed that I was really irritable and had problems focusing/remembering. I even started dropping things. About a week or two later it got a lot better. Reading a couple articles on PAWS (post-alcohol withdrawal syndrome) really helped - you might want to look it up.
Keep it simple and hang in there!
Keep it simple and hang in there!
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