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I love a mojito.
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It depends on your reasom for drinking. If it's for compulsion relief then you'll eventually end up in a bad way
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Definitely not for a compulsion, just wondering if OCD/anxiety symptoms would be made worse with light alcohol usage added to the mix. Before if I went out with friends to dinner I would have one cocktail or something along with the food so wondering if something like that would be okay once in a while or if it would be best to not partake all together
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@Evelyn4416 I think you have to figure out this for yourself, what works best.
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I do drink alcohol but not ever to the point that I’m getting drunk or even like a good buzz.. never like to feel like that since it kinda goes hand in hand with anxiety + ocd that I never really knew I had until the last year... but by textbook no you probably shouldn’t drink alcohol since it’s a depressant which can make symptoms worse.. but it’s really up to you. I personally love beer so it’s just hard to give up.. just don’t abuse it
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Thanks for the reply! I was thinking like one drink once in a while but if it’ll make symptoms worse then it’s not worth it
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I cut out alcohol as well thinking it’ll make my symptoms worse and it made it worse (for me cause everyone’s experiences are different) only because it was my 21st birthday and I abused it to the max. Never again will I drink that much and now I decided to drink once in a while a beer or two the max but that’s it.
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So far that has been a good limit, my ocd and anxiety don’t go haywire when I limit myself to 1 or 2 beers.
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If you are on medication its important ti be aware of how it affect in combination with alcohol. SSRI for example can add the effect.
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As long as it’s not abused / becoming an addiction , you are good to make that decision with whatever you feel is best! Yes, it will make depression / anxiety worse after the buzz wears off, sometimes worse than other times, & sometimes not as bad. It’s up to you if once and a while you’re okay with having to deal with the onset of the symptoms here and again. Personally I take that risk every once and a while. I still like to feel buzzed once and a while, rarely now bc my ocd got bad again this year but some times my ocd isn’t as severe and I’m like eh I could have a glass of wine or go to the bar with friends and just enjoy myself. I just won’t drink if I’m already depressed because that’s a completely different road.. I only have a drink or two if I’m already happy/mentally stable at the time.
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no! that’s called avoidance and is counter-intuitive! instead, allow yourself to drink in moderation. when you feel anxiety around whatever it may be, work on making peace with the fear and accepting yourself regardless of conditions. also, ERP may be effective here, where after drinking you could do ERP on the fear in question. may be an effective way to help treat it.
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Agree.
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I feel like I’ve had a lot of different categories of ocd. Some categories stick with me more and are repetitive. I’ve been doing well with mental health - not having anxiety stick around. When the physical feeling of anxiety sticks around, every thought is horrible, but when the feeling of anxiety is gone the obsessions don’t really impact me. If I can keep anxiety at bay, my life is good. I’ve been doing well lately, although this week I was scrolling through tictok and watched a video about someone in a coma and wondered if I was in a coma right now and didn’t know it. I had a panic attack for about 15 minutes. Anxiety, sweating, etc. It didn’t take ahold of me and it quickly lost its impact on me. It still shook me and I was just like “wow” where did that come from. Now I am staying away from social media. Is that avoidance? Should I make myself keep watching social media? Many ocd problems have come from social media or watching a movie or show that triggers something and then spirals. I am limiting what I watch, which I believe is good because I shouldn’t be watching that stuff anyway. What do you think?
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Hey what’s up y’all Does anyone else have generalized anxiety along with OCD and is taking a low dose medication? I wanted to try something I’m not big on meidcation but it’s getting to a point that it’s really affecting my day to day even though I’ve been dealing with it for years and years
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For context, I was previously diagnosed with GAD and OCD. Months ago, after a night of drinking with coworkers I experienced slight hangxiety, but I remembered most of the night. At work when I asked a coworker if I did anything weird he made a joke that really wasn’t funny. This joke caused me to doubt my memory. I think I had thought I was more sober than everyone else when in reality I was not. I remember checking on a coworker who was slumped over in the drivers seat of his car and in no state to drive and asking “you good?” The next thing I remember is that I was in the drivers seat of his car reversing out and I think I assumed that he and our other coworker were also in the car. Our other coworker stopped me and told me to pull back into the parking stall and come back inside. I remember the events both leading up to and after that all the way until I got home. However the small gap in my memory had been causing me a lot of distress, so I asked that coworker who I went to check on who was the only person that was present during the gap in my memory if I touched anyone or let anyone touch me, to which he said no definitely not. He also said that he wasn’t in the car when I was reversing out and that he vividly remembers that I was the only person in the car. When I explained to him that the joke that our other coworker said made me worry that I might’ve done something that constitutes cheating on my bf he said no that guy is just weird and says effed up stuff. I feel a lot better, because he has no reason to lie and he doesn’t seem like that type of person. However I still feel unsettled, so I plan to call my doctor’s office when they open in the next hour. I’m wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar/has any advice.
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