I've started talking to myself?
Question:
Since January, when I wake up after having drank the previous night, the guilty feeling is unbearably bad and I start talking to myself, it is just random nonsense I cannot understand it.
When the anxiety reaches its height it comes out as a word.
My doctor said I have alcohol neuropathy, and psycotic behaviour is a symptom of that but how can I stop drinking because when I am sober I can't even walk down the street without the shameful feeling.
I cannot find anything in my childhood that this came from although I did have a hard time at school.
Please help me because I do not want this to progress to the stage where I talk to myself in public. Thank you very much.
Answers:
I wish the absolute best of luck to you. Your doctor need to prescribe you medication to come off alcohol and deal with withdrawal symptoms. I would hope he or she discussed this with you. AA as a support group would help you. Therapy may be an option. You should seek help from any or all the above. Good luck to you.
It's no good trying to go through your childhood yet, as while alcohol is on board the system it clouds all the issues and doesn't permit your brain to function right. You need to detox first. Try to see a drug and alcohol psychiatrist and get into rehab, they'll also start you on supplements and medications to slow down the damage to your brain. In certain circumstances it may even reverse the damage, but there's no way to tell without starting.
The shameful feeling is part of thinking straight, you need to get used to it and then eventually it will lessen. If you keep trying to avoid it, it will never get better.
You have a rare position - having early symptoms of alcoholic brain damage but still enough brain to be able to recognise that things are going wrong. Don't waste it, you have a slim chance to get help.
Good luck.
as long as you dont answer yourself youre okay ;) Have you tried quitting drinking and going to a doctor for the anxiety? It would prolly be better for you in the long run . . .
get medication for anxiety and depression i take lexapro metatoprol and maybe go to AA good luck my friend.
My suggestion? Berksire is right on. The other answers, in my opinion are incorrect,, or making assumptions.
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