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It's been years since some of the most important people in my family passed away. For years, I was fine operated normally, nothing really seemed to register as a problem. But now all of a sudden, it feels like my brain is cracking from all sides. I'm overthinking things to an absurd degree, my brain is no longer able to process basic emotions properly, and all I do is get flashbacks to my past. For a long time I supressed my feelings with copious amounts of alcohol, and now that I'm fully sober, my brain is going absolutely insane. But why would my brain do this to me after so many years? Would it not make more sense it would have snapped way earlier on?

It's been years since some of the most important people in my family passed away. For years, I was fine operated normally, nothing really seemed to register as a problem. But now all of a sudden, it feels like my brain is cracking from all sides. I'm overthinking things to an absurd degree, my brain is no longer able to process basic emotions properly, and all I do is get flashbacks to my past. For a long time I supressed my feelings with copious amounts of alcohol, and now that I'm fully sober, my brain is going absolutely insane. But why would my brain do this to me after so many years? Would it not make more sense it would have snapped way earlier on?

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Doesn't sound like PTSD.

If you drink/drugs to avoid emotions, you never properly coped in a healthy way. It's pretty common for teenagers who are addicts into adulthood sober up and realize they never learned how to be adults, so they act like teenagers and have to re-go through that part of life sober to grow out of it.

It sounds like the things you never dealt with are now having a chace to since you're sober. That + hormonal imbalances in your brain due to alcohol can take a while to level back out.

Stay sober. Work on healthy coping skills.

Once you master coping skills you can literally get over anything pretty easily.