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Anxiety/Paranoia brought on by alcohol
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the day after drinking my friend always has the sense of paranoia, doom and gloom you mention. Just a few drinks does it. I would say in general she is a strong, good natured and easy going person. While drinking she is the same, good fun. And doesn't drink to silly excesses. As to why it happens, not a clue. Other than that alcohol is of course a depressant. Perhaps you (and she) are just especially intolerant.
Over the past year I suppose I've felt the same, only it's ten times worse when HAVE said or done something embarrasing when I've had a drink. I have now avoided going out to work dos as the fear becomes unbearable when i have to go to work on a Monday.
I now normally only drink with my close friends at each others homes but still even if I know I have been perfectly behaved my mind goes crazy. I wake up early then off my mind goes, I try to reason with myself and get back to sleep, I even try putting the tv on to distract my mind and I think I do go back to sleep as time passes but I don't feel like I have.
It also lasts for a few days with me and I have missed work becasue of it. I have tried calling or texting my friends who do reassure me I did nothing wrong but that doesn't really help.
I have recently come to the conclusion I am suffering from depression and the doctors have referred me to a counsellor as I have unresolved childhood issues, whether this paranoia is connected I don't know. I think stopping having a drink at the weekend is the short term solution, but if you're anything like me you get to the weekend and you think it's all ok.
I feel for you but I'm really glad I'm not the only person
This is a little different to your example, but i had a paranoid episode for the first time last week.
I had my office christmas party last week. After a really good night I suddenly found myself in a taxi with a couple of colleagues who I suddenly thought were trying to kill me. I was irrationally fearful of them (they are both good friends). I was screaming at them "why do you want to kill me", "who are you" and lots of other things which I am trying my very best to remember and forget. The Police turned up and thought I was just an average drunk, but I was anything but, I was fired up and ready to go (as though my body had dumped all the adrenaline available straight into my brain). Following more screaming I ran off into the night. I paused at one point to take my shoes off so that I could run more quietly (I seriously strained by calf muscles as a result). I then found a place to hide and passed out. I woke up some time later freezing to death and walked home.
This is completely out of the norm for me, and terrifying. As best I can work out it was alcohol induced (but I 'hope' that someone drugged me). Has anyone else had anything like this? It was particularly severe and has left me in a pretty poor state of mind. Any feedback gratefully received.
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