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Well, I did it again. Last night my girlfriend and I drank 2.5 bottles of wine and now I feel like crap. I don't have a drinking problem but I do enjoy drinking sometimes so quitting all together would be a very difficult thing to do. Does anyone else deal with this?

oooh yea! I know exactly how you feel. It's like I get so down on myself and feel so guilty after I've over indulged that I can't stand myself. I know a lot of it has to do with alcohol being a major depressant. So of course I'd feel depressed. Then of course I contribute my guilt feeling to having lost control because once I pass my established limit I seem to no longer have the ability to count! And of course this is what alcohol does .. it makes you less aware of what you're doing.
Then I tell myself that the good news is that I've got it out of my system (i.e. wanting to have a good stiff drink) and I shake it off and get back to doing the right thing. Which for me means I either don't drink at all ("go on the wagon")or go back to drinking in moderation which also means that I only buy what I'm going to drink at that time. I guess you have to look at how often it occurs too. I commend you for being open about how you feel. I think a lot of people have similar experiences.

lol yep i went through this every day after i had a night of drinking. would drink and then the next day I'd have the hangover anxiety all day 24/7 till i woke up the next morning. My chest would feel all uncomfortable and i'd feel all shaky and wouldn't even leave the house because I knew I had to get through the day to get to tomarrow to feel normal again. Unfortunately I had a very huge anxiety attack in april after one of those nights of drinking and I haven't drank since. I always knew what I'd get myself into if i decided to drink, and I always asked myself why i couldn't just have a regular hangover and not this 24/7 anxiety type one.