ClearMind

I think as alcohol addicts - even when we don't necessarily intend to - tend to understate the significance and severity of these symptoms because it has been happening so often over an often large number of years. I mean, over the few years before I stopped drinking, it had gotten to a point where I would black out almost every time I drink. A blackout is a severe, and very significant thing! It's a temporary form of brain damage. If we had experienced a blackout from a non-drinking activity, we would be shocked. For example, if I went to the mall earlier today to buy some sneakers, and I was sober while doing so... and all of a sudden tomorrow morning I woke up and couldn't remember doing this... I would probably be in a psychiatric ward by tomorrow night. But because it is alcohol induced, we tend to brush it off a little bit more. It's insane.