Hangover/withdrawal simulator

[NoYogaForMe]

So I had this “fun” idea…

You know how people always say “I wish they made a cure for being hangover”. I really don’t want that, because then fighting addiction would be 100 times even harder.

I always wished for a pill, that instantly gets you hangover for like a couple of hours. A pill you could take every time you plan to drink, so you remember what you’d be feeling.

So.

Would you help me remember?

I’ll start:

-headache that makes you nauseous

-dizziness

-Panic attacks and anxiety, the kind where you think “omg I drank so much my body’s giving up and I’m actually gonna die this time”

-you’re body aches like you have a fever

-standing in the shower wanting to vomit, but you have to get like 100 things done

-your brain just doesn’t get information through to your body, so you’re clumsy and slow

These are a few that comes to mind. I don’t really have experience with drugs, since my weapon of choice has always been alcohol, but feel free to describe coming off drugs too.

It would help me immensly to read your experiences, and kinda picture what was it like waking up after evening of substance abuse.

[Puzzled]

There was something with the poop also

[TrustyBird]

Excellent question and a great thing to muse upon. I think I was pretty consistently hungover for about 10 years. Most days. Let’s remember:
Waking up shaky with a dry mouth and instantly regretting all of your life choices.
Splitting headache that required many aspirin many times throughout the day.
Needing to shove something bread related in your mouth before heading to work so you didn’t feel like throwing up all day. That horrible achy feeling in the roof of your mouth when your mouth is too dry to help dissolve food.
The madness of doing it again every night.

[erntedank]

Things I always remember from alcohol:
Diarrhea, thirst, swollen body, face and fingers, the depression that lasts for days, dizziness & headache, crappy sleep for days, everything felt like a heavy chore even the most normal things, blurry sight, no concentration, no focus, the horrible smell and taste in my mouth, the longing for bedtime so the day would be over. I needed at least 3 days to recover from a drunk evening.

I like that I can spend a day in bed sober too, without the nasty side effects of a hangover.
I have all the above conditions sober too, but not all at once. A noro virus here, a migraine there, my depression coming and going, a burnt mouth after too spicy indian food, swollen everything after eating too late or the wrong food, allergy season for blurry sight, swollen eyes and a sore throat, menopausal hormone shenanigans for everything mentioned and more … I’m too old for the alcohol-induced all-in-one experience, the daily crap is more than enough

For codependency:
The self-hatered after begging for love and getting nothing and getting ignored, the feeling that nothing ever will change, the disgust that I made a fool of myself again, the exhaustion after overthinking and crying all night, the feeling of being unworthy, the furious anger that I’m not able to detach AND can’t force others to meet my needs, the dark self-destroying desperation paired with the inability to change myself, the situation or find the strength to leave and not look or go back.

Showing myself kindness and an absolute, not negotiable inner boundary to abstain from codependent behaviour paired with detour strategies where to go and what to do with my feelings and needs is key to stay on track.

For both conditions HALT was and is my #1 tip & goto for sobriety.

Stay sober folks, whatever we need, we won’t find it in active addiction.

[Peace]

Palpitations, facial flushing, puking straight bile til your stomach muscles hurt, acting stupid and having raging panic attacks over the dumb shit you said or did, calling out sick to work and then worrying sick about what your coworkers will think, needing to drink the next day to calm your nerves and drinking pepto like it’s water… alcohol is legit poison.. so much more awful shit too

[Cjp]

Dry heaving
Puking
Sleeping all day
Swearing off booze only to pick up later that night
Reeking of booze to others but not able to smell it oneself
Eating horribly
Feeling of guilt and shame for things done blacked out
Hearing about what i said or did the night before with horror
The denial

[Catk]

Embarrassment, not remembering what I said or did and to who. Then all the anxiety when seeing people and paranoid of looks wondering if they were out and saw me.

Wasting a “nice day” if its sunny out or anything, guilt, so much guilt for now being sick and lazy or sleeping through a “nice day”.

And alllll the physical stuff you’ve all written above.

[Puddingface33]

Those headaches that make you feel so sick !

Body aches that literally rendered you useless most of the day !

The people phobia, or beer fear we call it .
Terrified you’ve revealed all your secrets and few thoughts cos of verbal diarrhoea from all the wine and drugs.

Lying in bed unable to sleep cos you got so drunk you banged a load of coke and now you have to go to work on 2 hours sleep .

Vomiting to the point I gave my self severe stomach issues.. I have recently had surgery to fix it .

The mood swings for days or a week afterwards ! Emotional wreck

Sweating like you had a permanent fever .

Eating loads of crap the next day like a bottomless pit !

Constant sinus infections and major acid reflux .

God it’s mad that I put myself through all that repeatedly