Effects of Drinking Alcohol on people who already have a temper

Andy From Sligo

OK - People who drink alcohol extensively and cause a fight or bottles someone or just get Leary or aggressive - are they already an aggressive person or a person with a short temper to start off with and the alcohol just accelerates it even further, or is it the drink that lowers barriers and inhibitions and is so mood changing that it can change a placid person to a raving loony monster?

Here is the way I look at it, but i am not an expert. That people who are very laid back and dont have a temper just drink or get drunk and pass out , or act all silly and laugh and fall over things and puke up everywhere - whereas people who get drunk and want to fight someone or starts kicking stuff or get into a rage , they already (before drinking) are volatile people to start off with and that the drinking just accelerates their mood/temper.

What do you reckon? - any truth in what I say or do you not agree?

Joeseph Balls

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

OK - People who drink alcohol extensively and cause a fight or bottles someone or just get Leary or aggressive - are they already an aggressive person or a person with a short temper to start off with and the alcohol just accelerates it even further, or is it the drink that lowers barriers and inhibitions and is so mood changing that it can change a placid person to a raving loony monster?

Here is the way I look at it, but i am not an expert. That people who are very laid back and dont have a temper just drink or get drunk and pass out , or act all silly and laugh and fall over things and puke up everywhere - whereas people who get drunk and want to fight someone or starts kicking stuff or get into a rage , they already (before drinking) are volatile people to start off with and that the drinking just accelerates their mood/temper.

What do you reckon? - any truth in what I say or do you not agree?

Don't agree. I myself have short temper, but when I drink I am the total opposite. That's just one case I suppose.

Esel

STFU, ya moany cnut!

Fr_Dougal

I think a lot of it depends on the actual alcohol involved, know some people who go nuts on beer but are fine on spirits; and vice versa.

KERSPLAT!

I think it's different for everyone. Sure you'll get the **** who are just out for a row but I've seen normally even-tempered people become aggressive too with alcohol consumed.

ED E

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

What do you reckon?

You've way too much time on your hands.

Joeseph Balls

Esel wrote: »

STFU, ya moany cnut!

Wanna fight?

KERSPLAT!

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

I think a lot of it depends on the actual alcohol involved, know some people who go nuts on beer but are fine on spirits; and vice versa.

I hear this quite a bit too. Vodka = aggression, etc. I'mIthe same whatever the drink is, locked and sleepy

tomofson

Alcohol in excess can bring out the worse in a lot of people, I know I have seen it first hand... Some people just turn Pure evil on the stuff.

Andy From Sligo

so, if someone had a shocking temper and they decided to go for anger management professional help do they teach you how to handle your anger when drink taken?

Oscar Bravo

the BBC....I MADEEEEE THE BBC!!!!!!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I don't think it's that simple.
I would have a quick temper, though I'm not aggressive.
I'd be easily angered, easily riled.

That said, for the past 13 years I've drank a lot, a LOT, and I've never once been in a fight. I was in one confrontation, where two polish women jumped on me one night because they didn't believe me when I said I didn't smoke. One pushed me and I pushed her back, and it was a verbal fight then. If she had hit me I'd have taken off my shoe and hit her back, but thankfully it didn't come to that.

I think people who get in fights enjoy fights.

corner of hells

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I don't think it's that simple.
I would have a quick temper, though I'm not aggressive.
I'd be easily angered, easily riled.

That said, for the past 13 years I've drank a lot, a LOT, and I've never once been in a fight. I was in one confrontation, where two polish women jumped on me one night because they didn't believe me when I said I didn't smoke. One pushed me and I pushed her back, and it was a verbal fight then. If she had hit me I'd have taken off my shoe and hit her back, but thankfully it didn't come to that.

I think people who get in fights enjoy fights.

Wasn't that a film on pornhub ?

Esel

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Wanna fight?

I was talking to Andy, but you'll do!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

corner of hells wrote: »

Wasn't that a film on pornhub ?

I doubt it, more like the scary movie channel, the hack of the pair of them. I was beautiful though, natch.

TSMGUY

An already unpleasant person becomes even more..... unpleasant. I think alcohol definitely exacerbates people's negative traits.

I suppose it accounts for why bouncers are such stony faced twats half the time.

jackofalltrades

I think the saying "in vino veritas" mostly sums it up.

If you're an assshole drink is going to make you worse.
If you're a repressed asshole drink is going to show your true colours.
Can't stand people who act the dick when drunk and then blame it on the booze.
That said I understand that people can have off days or affected differently be different drinks.

Aglomerado

I tend to be cranky a lot of the time, but beer makes me merry and then sleepy. If I'm anxious and then get pissed I can be argumentative, but that's the exception rather than the rule. I have a friend who is anxious most of the time and when he takes drink (Heineken) he turns abusive.... His wife gets the brunt of it usually horrible stuff like 'you fat loser, useless c*nt" etc. He turned on me the last time we were all out together at a Pixies gig and I haven't spoken to him since. He'll be all contrite for a few days before it all starts again. This has been happening regularly for the last few years and I have got to the point where I have declined friends' weekends away where he is involved... It just ruins everyone's night.

The_Valeyard

Really depends on the person & drink.

A guy could have a few pints toddle off home to bed and be fine. Same guy could have a whiskey and turn into Stalin. Same lad could have gin, and be grand, while another be in a state of depression. He could enjoy a jager bomb while missus could be bouncing off the walls on it.

Every person has their Kryponite when it comes to booze, just need to know what it is and stay away from it.

D3V!L

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Really depends on the person & drink.

A guy could have a few pints toddle off home to bed and be fine. Same guy could have a whisked and turn into Stalin. Same lad could have gin, and be grand, while another be in a state of depression. He could enjoy a jager bomb while missus could be bouncing off the walls on it.

Every person has their Kryponite when it comes to booze, just need to know what it is and stay away from it.

I've found that myself. Different drinks have completely different effects on my mood. Guinness just mellows me out and I can relax whereas Whiskey makes me upset (not in the angry way).

biko

I'm a happy guy usually and even more so when drinking.
But I've been aggressive a few times.

Sometimes when you start drinking you're not in a good place, and drink amplifies that.

aaronjumper

I think booze tends to amplify what you're already feeling.
Anger becomes rage, sadness despair etc etc.

If I'm in a bad place I won't drink, unless I'm by myself.

ScumLord

For some people alcohol acts like a switch in their head and they just turn into outright *****.

I think Irish society uses drink as an excuse to act the **** when we want to be. We don't really come down to hard on people that act the **** on a night out, we just seem to bank that cuntishness for another night when we can have our turn being a ****. Drink is purely an excuse to some people. They have a bad day and go to the pub in the knowledge they'll get drunk and take out their mood on someone else.

I don't really understand it, I've never really had enough of any drug that I lose the run of myself, and I've tried to get to that place of no awareness.

OldNotWIse

Depends on the person. I don't have a temper but I would be "crotchety" by nature, and after a few drinks you'll find me at my most mellow and pleasant. The OH is operating at a general level a notch or two south of reasonable, and when she has drink she makes the terrible twos look like a breeze! I've heard it said before that alcohol tends to send you further along the road you're already on, so if you're feeling blue it will depress you, if you're buzzing it will add to that.

OldNotWIse

aaronjumper wrote: »

I think booze tends to amplify what you're already feeling.
Anger becomes rage, sadness despair etc etc.

If I'm in a bad place I won't drink, unless I'm by myself.

That's worse

Story Bud?

aaronjumper wrote: »

I think booze tends to amplify what you're already feeling.
Anger becomes rage, sadness despair etc etc.

I'm the opposite.

If I'm in a bad mood, I'll be absolutely grand after a couple of drinks.

Thankfully my personality never changes (and I'm not in the slightest bit aggressive), just that my mood lightens.

Squall Leonhart

There has been a few moments of unreasonable aggression and anger when I've had too much to drink that i'm not proud of over the last few years, maybe twice in the last 3 years. I can be a bit of a grump in my sober state, but generally avoid conflict in day to day life. I think sometimes people can just have a bad moment when drinking and that these aren't always indicative of a larger problem in the person.

aaronjumper

OldNotWIse wrote: »

That's worse

Only if you choose to see it that way.
Better that I don't put a downer on another persons day because I'm having a bad one.

Story Bud? wrote: »

I'm the opposite.

If I'm in a bad mood, I'll be absolutely grand after a couple of drinks.

Thankfully my personality never changes (and I'm not in the slightest bit aggressive), just that my mood lightens.

A great way to be altogether.

OldNotWIse

aaronjumper wrote: »

Only if you choose to see it that way.
Better that I don't put a downer on another persons day because I'm having a bad one.

A great way to be altogether.

No I wasn't judging you, I just meant from a mental health perspective, its not good to be drinking alone if you feel down Then again, I'm guilty of it myself at times..

aaronjumper

OldNotWIse wrote: »

No I wasn't judging you, I just meant from a mental health perspective, its not good to be drinking alone if you feel down Then again, I'm guilty of it myself at times..

Oh I know I wasn't taking offence I just don't see it that way.
It works for me, I'm not saying I lock myself away on a regular basis.

Just now and again. Whatever works sure.

metaoblivia

Can't speak for myself because I've never been drunk, but I grew up with a physically abusive, alcoholic parent and alcohol definitely increased their aggressiveness. They were capable of abuse drunk or sober, but when they got really drunk, they would come home late at night and wake my sibling and I up for the sole purpose of starting a fight. That never happened when they were sober. So I think if you're already inclined to get physically violent, enough alcohol will amplify that.