A little update on my condition: In my original post I wrote that I started to get severe hypochondria at night ..well it turns out that there was a reason and it was because of the couple times I drank heavily. I didn't realize it at the time because the anxiety wouldnt hit me until almost 2 weeks after I drank. I didn't make the connection until I noticed that I would complain about anxiety in my journal and it was always 1-2 weeks after I drank heavily. And each time I drank it seemed that it was mounting on my previous anxiety and getting worse and worse. I freaked out and thought my I wasn't improving but really it was just gaba downregulation from drinking. This has never happened to me before as I used to drink 3-4 nights a week in college with no issues whatsoever. I have no real scientific answer for this but I think for whatever reason my comedown made me extremely sensitive to alcohol and it gave me side effects that were similar to benzo withdrawal.
My last drink was December 6th and my anxiety peaked at around December 25th ( what a shitty christmas haha) and I can't even begin to explain how terrible it was. I nearly went to the ER a couple times because I thought I was going to die. I kept thinking I was gonna get a stroke or something but it was all anxiety related. My doc had me get an MRI so I would calm down. Everything in my brain is 100% fine so those worrying about brain damage realize it's all mental. I must have rolled 20+ times in the last year with cocktails of other drugs and alcohol and if my brain is fine yours is too.
So now it's been nearly a 100 days since I last drank and the full on "I'm gonna die" panic has gone thank god. I still have lingering GAD and stuff and it's sucks but I'm somehow making it through.
I highly recommend that everyone suffering with any sort of "comedown" issue stay 100% sober. I was pretty much suicidal every night for the entire month of january and I still don't know how I got through it. I hope no one has to suffer anything that bad so please don't put any drug into your body until you are better.
In hindsight there was a week where I felt nearly 100% back to normal. That's when I decided to not think about this at all, take my general health supps only (multi, fish oil, probiotic, magnesium) and life my life normally. From now on I'm going to go back on that protocol and doing my best to ignore it and focus on my school work.
I won't be back on this site for a while but if anyone does have any questions I'll be checking this thread occasionally.
Wish you all the best of luck