Why cant I drink alcohol?!


Question: I used to drink occasionaly, now whenever I have more than a sip i seem to freak out. My heart starts to race, my ears pound I cant think straight and I feel really frightened.
I used to enjoy a social drink and get annoyed when I cant even have a drink with friends for a birthday etc. I am 23.
Same thing has happened from drinking coffee!! Help please!


Answers: I used to drink occasionaly, now whenever I have more than a sip i seem to freak out. My heart starts to race, my ears pound I cant think straight and I feel really frightened.
I used to enjoy a social drink and get annoyed when I cant even have a drink with friends for a birthday etc. I am 23.
Same thing has happened from drinking coffee!! Help please!

Maybe your body reacts differently to alcohol & caffiene? Like an allergic reaction?

Are you on any medications?

it might be a psychological thing. maybe seek out someone who has valid knowledge on how to trick your mind to go back to seeing drinking as a normal thing, not something you should become paranoid over. Or maybe put it to rest, look up the statistics about how alcohol can affect you and realize that maybe its okay to not drink

well if you at one point got so drunk that you were on your hands and knees throwing up in a restroom horsetrough in mexico then the answer could be a behavioral one.... it might just be regular old classcal conditioning and your body has learned that something is bad for it... it happens often with people who drink a lot and have a particulary bad night and then even the smell of a certain type of alcohol can have adverse effects on the body....
if its a medical thing then maybe its best if youjust step away from the bottle and contact your physician.

there is a medical rticle that says the brain can realease to many different things that cause u to do weird stuff and there mght be something that is causing these smptoms

you might have an anxiety disorder. i have anxiety and things i used to be able to do i cant anymore, like drinking alcohol or just being around people drinking alcohol, because ill have a full on panic attack. i think it might be related to the feeling of not being incontrol, which alcohol can render you. talk to your doctor





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