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Suggest Remedy To Overcome Uneasiness Due To Excessive Drinking

hi, last night i went to a house party and i was drinking from 8 till about midnight i believe and i don't remember leaving my friends apartment or how i left and how i got back to my residence, and it's scaring me as to what happened when this happened, but also I am feeling shaky and cold right now, my stomach doesn't feel at ease, and i feel tired and sort of "out of it" but the thing is i haven't puked yet, what do i do or what's wrong why do I feel like this still ?
Mon, 29 Dec 2014
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This is called an "alcoholic blackout". It is a serious sign of a drinking problem. It is controversial what to do about it. The knee-jerk opinion is to treat like alcoholism and never drink again, go to meetings, go onto medication to control drinking.

Observing people who've had 1 or very few of these with one or very few episodes of heavy drinking has not supported a need for severe measures.

And realizing that unlimited alcohol intake is going to be bad, setting limits on numbers of drinks works for most.

The memory of that night is not going to come back. You may make up memories and think they have (if people are told what they are supposed to remember, they mostly make up the memories and believe them to be real!).
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Suggest Remedy To Overcome Uneasiness Due To Excessive Drinking

This is called an alcoholic blackout . It is a serious sign of a drinking problem. It is controversial what to do about it. The knee-jerk opinion is to treat like alcoholism and never drink again, go to meetings, go onto medication to control drinking. Observing people who ve had 1 or very few of these with one or very few episodes of heavy drinking has not supported a need for severe measures. And realizing that unlimited alcohol intake is going to be bad, setting limits on numbers of drinks works for most. The memory of that night is not going to come back. You may make up memories and think they have (if people are told what they are supposed to remember, they mostly make up the memories and believe them to be real!).