TimeUp wrote: » - For some reason when you are in a situation when you'd usually have it, you start to feel a bit tipsy before it touches your lips. I've talked about this with a few people and it also happened to them. - I once bumped into my sister on the street, I hadn't seen her for a month or so. For some reason I felt hungover for a brief second. After talking with her for a while she tells me she's horribly hungover. Nothing that'd betray it other than my inexplicable feeling. - I never had much problem with alcohol other than the odd spree, but I haven't been drunk nor event tipsy for the last 2 years or so, because I realized I don't enjoy being drunk, and specially don't enjoy being hungover. Now, something I've noticed, related to the funny feeling of happiness I would have (if I wasn't too hungover) the day after having drunk. I had come to associate that sensation to a feeling of unsettlement, because I recognized it as being artificial and because when it disappeared it usually left me feeling pretty miserable. I keep experiencing the inexplicable happiness now, when I'm laying idle, have spent the night out or gone to bed late, but now it doesn't unsettle me because I know there's not gonna be a "withdrawal" feeling when the effects of alcohol disappear. Does any of this happen to you guys? How do you relate to alcohol in general?
elperello wrote: » There is a balance between being under the influence and enjoying a drink. Find that and you have cracked it.
OMM 0000 wrote: » Some people are wired to be binge drinkers. Once they get a drink in them they want to keep going.
BarryD2 wrote: » Nah, that's just a convenient self delusion with which to salve their conscience.
OMM 0000 wrote: » elperello wrote: » There is a balance between being under the influence and enjoying a drink. Find that and you have cracked it. I think a lot of people can't do this though. Some people are wired to be binge drinkers. Once they get a drink in them they want to keep going.
Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: » I think these would be alcoholics
OMM 0000 wrote: » That makes no sense. You sound like one of those people who think depression can be solved by just snapping out of it.
BarryD2 wrote: » No it makes the same sense as it does for people who claim they are wired to be fat... whilst they tuck into their second packet of biscuits after eating a bag of doughnuts. A convenient excuse, can't help myself.
OMM 0000 wrote: » No, there's a difference between a binge drinker and an alcoholic. I'm a binge drinker but I only drink every few months. I don't crave alcohol or give a **** about it.
Yer Da sells Avon wrote: » I'd be similar. I can easily go months without drinking or wanting a drink. I can sit in a pub for the night, happily knocking back the diet coke, or slowly supping on a couple of pints. It'd never occur to me to drink alone, but give me a bottle of wine at a party (red or white, I don't mind) and I'll make it disappear. Same with whiskey.
20Wheel wrote: » a guy on youtube online mentioned something related to this. he was on a plane and said to his fellow passenger that he felt kind of strange, almost somewhat tipsy. turned out someone in the adjacent rows was knocking back the wine. so yeah i suppose like any fume, alcohol fumes can travel a bit, be ingested and give you a bit of a buzz. depending on sensitivity/regularity of exposure.
OMM 0000 wrote: » So you're not an alcoholic, but do you have a "drinking problem" when it comes to wine and whiskey? Probably. But is it a bad one? I wouldn't think so, as you're totally in control of when you choose to go drinking.
El_Duderino 09 wrote: » I think it's more about the psychological associations. I saw a brief experiment once on TV where they had 2 groups. put them in little "night club" rooms and gave them drinks, music dancing all that jazz. then asked them to rate how drunk they felt and do coordination tests. the coordination obviously fell with increasing drunkenness. But, as you might have guessed, one group only had non alcoholic drinks, but the still reported getting drunk and had decreasing coordination scores. not as pronounced as the group that was actually drinking alcohol. But its fascinating. they believed they were getting drunk and so exhibited the symptoms of being drunk
OMM 0000 wrote: » Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: » I think these would be alcoholics No, there's a difference between a binge drinker and an alcoholic. I'm a binge drinker but I only drink every few months. I don't crave alcohol or give a **** about it. I have an ex who was in AA. Although according to AA an alcoholic is anyone who thinks they're an alcoholic. So technically someone who has a glass of wine twice a week could define themselves as an alcoholic.
Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: » It's the but where you say "Once they get a drink in them..." that I'd argue is alcoholism. If you can't just have one or two and stop, something's wrong.
OMM 0000 wrote: » I definitely think they have a "drink problem" but I don't think a binge drinker is an alcoholic. Of course there are some binge drinker who are alcoholics. But the guy who goes mad on a Friday night but doesn't "need" alcohol or secretly drink or drink every day or two, I think he just has a bit of a drink problem when he drinks, otherwise he's normal. Whereas I think an alcoholic has a drink problem even when he's not drinking, because he's probably thinking about drinking or looking forward to his drink later that day.
Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: » Well... no one has a drink problem when they're not actually drinking...
OMM 0000 wrote: » I think a lot of people can't do this though. Some people are wired to be binge drinkers. Once they get a drink in them they want to keep going.
cjmc wrote: » One strange thing happened me. I had no drink at all for about 10 days and even then only 2 pints. And while driving one night after a tiring day ,because I was so tired I kept 'tasting ' alcohol in my mouth. I was actually feeling like I had a pint or two by them time I got home.
