Drinkers.. opinions, please??!
Drinkers.. opinions, please??
Have you ever witnessed someone go into a rage or turn into a completely different person as a result of heavy drinking? Do you think that the drunkness shows the person's true colors, or that the person could still potentially be a good person when sober, and the alcohol turns them into something they're not?
Answers: I have personally done this. I blacked out and hurt someone very close to me.
It didn't mean I was a bad person, per se, but I definitely did a bad thing; horrible actually.
I got help and we worked it out over time. It's different with every person. Some go into a rage and let you know all the secrets they've been keeping. Some just become the opposite of who they are.
I go to sleep. people are compleetly different when they're drunk. don't judge the person by their behaveior when drunk but by weather or not they are aware of their change in behaveior and drink anyway. I know alot of people who go into a blind rage when they're drunk. And honestly I'd have to say that it shows who they really are. Who's to say that that same anger won't appear later when they finally snap about something bugging them. Alcohol is a drug and doesnt change you, it shows who you really are. Some get angry, some get talkative but stay friendly, others just slump down in the corner.
Myself, I apparantly start singing.
Whether that's the real me is debateable My ex husband was a binge drinker - he could turn on a sixpence.
My sister has the same trouble - and all her friends and family are slowly drifting away from her.
Drink affects people in different ways - personally I think they should not drink at all. Every person reacts different to different kinds of alcohol. Depends on the person and how much they drink, what they had to drink, and if they have any other food or beverage in their body. Yes..a person who has had their limit does turn into something that you have never seen before but it is just the alcohol messing with the body. If you saw the person sober then that is more then likely their true self. When people get drunk they do things without thought and mess up. That is the chance that you take while you drink. Whenever I see a drunk person I know that it is just fake and they are a good person at heart....such as myself. I drink and I know that I am not myself when I am drunk but when sober I am normal and a nice person.
Hope this helped. I think alcohol can turn you into someone you aren't if you are beyond the point of having control. A few drinks can loosen up or exaggerate your personallity but drinking to the point of black out often brings out personality traits in people that don't exist when they are sober. It depends, if someone only has a few drinks and turns into Mr Hyde then they obviously have a problem and are probably revealing their true selves, however if someone has been on a 13 hour bender and acts differently i would put that down to the effect of the alcohol rather than the person. Alcohol in massive quantities has the effect of shutting down the conscious parts of our brain, the parts that tell us how to behave etc. and this reduces us to basically working off instinct and emotion, hence people becoming angry, depressed, violent or horny when drunk. Alcohol lowers inhibitions but it doesn't MAKE anyone do anything. Someone who gets violent when drunk but not when he's sober is someone who WANTS to get violent when he is sober, too, he just refrains from getting violent because he knows he'll get in trouble for it. Drinking doesn't turn him violent, drinking just makes him stop caring about the potential for getting in trouble.
Someone who gets a LITTLE more silly or flirty or playful or clumsy when drunk is a good person who might or might not need to be a little more careful about drinking but someone whose violence comes out when he drinks is a wolf in sheep's clothing when he's sober. I would be very cautious around such a person and if he knows he has a rage problem and drinks anyway? I'd get the hell out. I'm of the opinion that alcohol magnifies personality traits that are already there. If you know someone who flies into a rage when drunk, then he has a lot of anger to begin with. Alchohal changes everybody. It alters your mindstate, and you don't act like your normal self. So no, you dont judge the nature of people when they are drunk, they clearly aren't showing who they really are.
The type of alchohal your drinking, and the quantity affect each person differently. Some get really happy and hyper, some get really angry and violent.
So judge them by when they're sober. Alcohol does two bad things at the same time.....it lowers one's inhibitions AND clouds their judgment. Therefore, it makes (or better yet), allows one to do and say things and act in ways they don't do when they have all of their reasoning abilities intact. It is a self-induced insanity sort of....so let us hope people who do bad things when drunk simply stop drinking because they have an allergy to alcohol, so to speak. Good luck. They call it beer muscles, The person probably has a temper and the alcohol just intensifies it. Yep.
Alcohol affects different people in different ways. I get more talkative and outgoing. It actually has a positive effect on my behavior. Well except tequila. I don't know why, but I have a habit of doing high risk things when I drink it so I don't drink it anymore.
I know of people that get very belligerent only when they drink. I have a friend who gets that way only when he drinks whiskey. Go figure.... Nah, it's a reason they go into a rage. I call it Liquid courage. They can't say what they really want to while sober, so they drink and drink and oops, too late! a few drinks are said to make inhabitions fall away, all the guarding is gone. but then again some people just go crazy. it really all depends on the person I dont think drunkeness (is that even a word?) shows a persons true colors as much as it exaggerates whatever emotion they are feeling at that moment. Some people are just a-holes so they are voilent whenever they drink, but even happy go lucky folks can get riled and "punchy" when they drink. I dont drink a whole lot, but when I do I dont usually get angry or voilent, just depressed and quiet.