Hi all, I'm not new to new to this forum, but it's my first post here, will try to keep it brief... Until recently I drank almost daily since I was 18 (I am 32). I would go to the pub for 2 or 3 pints (or sometimes 4 or 5…) each night after work, heavily on weekends, usually had Sundays off. Also sometimes drank in afternoons more recently. Then 2 years ago, when very worried about an ill relative going for an operation, and while taking ibruprofen (NSAID) for an odd sharp pain in my lower right abdomen, I drank a lot of white wine over 3 afternoons and nights, & the next day hallucinated smells on myself & became delusional, and spent 3 weeks in a psychiatric ward (I played down my drinking when they asked me). I woke early morning after the drinking smelling an odd smell on myself, & with deluded ideas of stopping the relative going to the hospital. My pain was getting worse, and later that day I became completely ‘mad’, heart rate going through the roof, smelling the odd smell all over, clouding of consciousness, difficulty speaking & walking, became suicidal, lost so much weight my trousers fell down, hair greasy and flat, became terribly paranoid & seriously deluded, needed watching over by family. Doctor prescribed risperidone (antipsychotic) which made me feel terrible, didn’t help at all really. I went into the psych unit and they gave me olanzapine (antipsych & tranquiliser) which almost immediately stopped the smell hallucinations, heart rate etc. This was almost 2 weeks into the episode. I gradually got better, craved sugary food, put on 2 stone. Their official diagnosis was an acute polymorphic psychotic episode with no signs of schizophrenia. It was a truly awful experience, I believe I nearly died and coming out of it was like waking from a living nightmare. I stopped the meds, and went back to work with a calm & confidence I’d never known before. I never thought at that point that any of it was caused by alcohol… I haven’t taken up regular drinking since though because after I started again it brought back anxiety, fast heart rate, and it’s sometimes hard to stop; my body also sometimes ‘jerks’ during the following couple of nights, which made me think it was alcohol all along, but I was blind to it. Also seem to get drunk quickly. I wondered whether anyone has been through a similar experience? I don’t know if I had an alcohol psychosis or a depressive psychosis? I am thinking that as it took the tranquiliser to cure me my nervous system must have been in overdrive because of alcohol. Sorry for going on & many thanks for reading.