Deciding to kick an alcohol addiction is difficult to do. However, for many who have decided to make such a positive, yet drastic change in their lives there are possibly still more difficult times ahead.

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Can ADD be caused from a fetus being subjected to alcohol, day after day, in the womb? When the baby became a toddler, she was very hyperactive, and now as an adult, has ADD. Could this be caused from the mother drinking the whole time she was pregnant with this child? (The baby was born with delirium tremors, couldn’t breath, and was in alcohol withdrawals).

I am 30 years old and I have always been a drinker although in the last 18 months this had got out of control. I have been on a detox for 2 1/2 weeks now decreasing alcohol until 10 days ago when I completely cut down. The first 3-5 days were horrendous with insomnia, lethargy and anxiety. The anxiety is better now and most other symptoms have improved. My problem is that I feel anxious about feeliing anxious and have found myself having to cancel meetings, appointmnents, abandon shopping trips and/or avoiding public places because I just feel too anxious.

Help?

I’m a 19 year old female. I’ve suffered from anxiety for the past two years now, never been on medication because I am strongly opposed to taking it. But for the past few months I’ve been drinking at least four beers a day, at least five times a week. And I haven’t drank for almost 48 hours and I am feeling irritable and anxious. I also am late on rent, got laid off, so those factors are also causing me to be anxious. And I am somewhat of a hypochondriac.

Was I drinking too much that I’d have to go to the hospital for my alcohol withdrawal? Or is this just my anxiety intensified and not significant alcohol withdrawal?

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