Drinking blackouts
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I get it a lot when I drink spirits straight, even if I don't drink a lot of them. Like, I could drink 6-7 pints down the pub over a few hours no problem, but then if I had a few shots of vodka or whiskey I'd have quite a chance of experiencing this.
Oddly though I never get it when I mix them with soft drinks.
Oddly though I never get it when I mix them with soft drinks.
You obviously do care because you did it again. You don't need to be so defensive.
No, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I feel sorry for him, not least because if it was going to happen to anyone it was going to happen to him.
Maybe you should slow down
I'm starting to think that too.
Whenever it happens to me I go turbo-paranoid I have done something horrific, but it's normally a case of having innocent fun and sadly losing the memory. The absolute worst time was when I was enjoying a house party and having a good chat with friends... and then I woke up in the main room of the party on the sofa.
Apparently I was perked up and awake one minute and just totally conked out the next.
I dread to think what might have happened. What a pleb.
If you have lost your memory, you have drank too much, obviously. Just make sure you tone it down next time around.
Apparently I was perked up and awake one minute and just totally conked out the next.
I dread to think what might have happened. What a pleb.
If you have lost your memory, you have drank too much, obviously. Just make sure you tone it down next time around.
No thats cause I'm drunk.
You're being defensive by trying to find a reason other thann you drink too much.
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erm i dont really get blackouts, but for example, i started on these 2 guys, they pushed me to the floor, when i got up like 30 seconds later i had forgotten i was on the floor and about the guys, hehehehehe.
my friend looses all memory and wakes up with someone elses blood on his hands, about 4-5 times it has happened now, this is actually pretty worrying tbh, last time we both had blood on us and i burned the clothes
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You need to sort your **** out.
Are you sure you didn't just get a bit enthusiastic with the Heinz 57? That can happen.
I'm asking if it's representative of a larger problem.
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recently ive just been losing all memory of things after drinking. weirdest thing is that when i ask people if i was in a state they will say i was acting completley normal
fully feel for the guy who gets paranoid thinking hes done something awful though. i get that all the time but its often because i have done something awful or stupid bad times
fully feel for the guy who gets paranoid thinking hes done something awful though. i get that all the time but its often because i have done something awful or stupid
bad timesfully feel for the guy who gets paranoid thinking hes done something awful though. i get that all the time but its often because i have done something awful or stupid
Nothing worse at all than waking up in the morning and wondering what you was acting like the previous evening. It can sometimes play on my mind for days afterwards
a larger problem?like you are an alcoholic?
Indeed, this has been going on for a while now. I'd appreciate constructive replies since this is a genuine concern of late. Thankfully there are some people in this thread who can empathise rather than just trying to be funny or clever.
WEll if you mean alcoholism, do you a) have the shakes?
B) get drunk every day/very regularly purely for the sake of getting drunk?
Stop drinking for a month if you manage that without some severe problems then no you;re not alcoholic.
No, then I'd definitely know I had a problem.
Yes, maybe two/three times a week. But it's fun.
I dunno, I never really piled them on, but I'd go from feeling happily merry to suddenly waking up in bed the next morning still in all my clothes.
Friends apparently never noticed the change, when personally it went from memory to no-memory, apparently I never did anything odd or bad, at least in the first couple of years of uni.
To begin with I just put it off as "must've been a good night!" and carried on, and for much of uni it didn't worry me too much, I'd just lose half an hour here or there.
But towards the end of uni and for a few isolated incidents afterwards, it worried me. One time (when I was full of stress and unhappiness with myself) I became very verbally aggressive towards the boyfriend at the time. I 'came to' on the toilet at 4am and went back to bed next to the poor lad who told me what I'd been like. I was SO ashamed.
Another time I came home and the next morning found I had smashed a plate, a mug, lost my necklace, and (for the first time in my life) been sick on my floor and in my bed. Seriously considered going teetotal after that one.
The last occasion (couple of years ago) I was newly single and pulled in a club. I remembered drunkenly giving my number away... and saw him in the same club a month or so later. He was really really /really/ not attractive, not clever, not witty, not anything. I feel for the guy but I have no idea what I had been thinking.
Since then... I've been pretty careful. I stick to longer drinks. I nurse my ales for up to an hour. I take singles in my girly drinks, not doubles. I steer clear of the punch at house parties.
It just ain't good, been there - done that - don't want to do it again.
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it;s also a steaming great pile of BS
your a steaming pile of bs
a) in th morning after drinking
b) why would you drink, if your not planning to get drunk, but every week, not daily!
you can only trust one person if youve seen them absolutely drunk. people who dont drink cannot be trusted
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Good god if I were to reel of the times I had black-outs and did things that were horribly embarassing we'd be here all day. It's drinking too much too quickly that's the problem, your body and mind can't cope with it and it just results in complete annihilation.
I try not do to this any more and it happens VERY rarely, but I think i've damaged my liver etc a bit and it happens still now and then even when I haven't had a ridiculous amount, onl when I drink too quickly. Only way of avoiding it barring is relying on common sense (which leaves me after a few drinks), or going tee-total. I've considered the latter.
I try not do to this any more and it happens VERY rarely, but I think i've damaged my liver etc a bit and it happens still now and then even when I haven't had a ridiculous amount, onl when I drink too quickly. Only way of avoiding it barring is relying on common sense (which leaves me after a few drinks), or going tee-total. I've considered the latter.