Does AlcoHell actually enhance anyone's personality ?
 

Hi all.

Nearing a year sober and I have been pondering this thought quite often, Does Alcohol actually enhance anyone's personality at all or does it take peoples personality away ?

Had to go on a few functions of recent and have had great pleasure in watching many people transform in front of my very eyes, from normal people to dullards/repeating fools and in some cases into obnoxious/sentimental idiots . I honestly think once someone starts drinking even the first drink they change and they change for the worse.

Only the drinker thinks he or she is changing for the better in those first drinks.

Happy sober Christmas all at SR. you have really really helped me this year.

It makes me angry, paranoid and depressed.

Definitely agree with you.

I think for some real introverts it can help. But just for a short period of time. They open up more and show something more about them. But once sober, they are all the same as before, or even worse, because they are closing more and more. Which may lead to increase in alcohol consumption just to be able to talk to another people. Ultimately they can become serious alcoholics (I've met one guy like this unfortunately).

I myself, and many others that I have met, are more social with a couple of drinks in us than cold sober. However, I can not have a couple of drinks and stop there. 9 times out of ten, I will go on to drink till I passout or blackout.

Many research experiments show people are better able to do some tasks better with small amounts of alcohol in them (including driving). In my early days of drinking, I could bowl better with 2 beers, play pool better with 2 beers and converse with a stranger better with 2 beers. In my later stages of drinking, there was no such thing as having only 2 beers.

a false sense of security with horrendous consequences

Wow, really Boleo. I'm surprised by that research, and the point of it...?

I can't think of anyone I would rather socialise with when they had had a few drinks, no one. Not even the really shy people I know. I know sometimes people say 'so and so is a fun drunk' but I have been noticing this recently and it really is just so people can laugh at them and take the mick later. I have never wanted to be the person who was that 'fun'.

I was painfully shy when I was young and I think I thought alcohol helped me socialise, but I made a bit of an arse of myself so I stuck to drinking by myself, which is obviously of no social benefit.

Hi DarkDays. I was always shy & self-conscious, and drinking helped with that early on. Many years down the road, it had stolen my spirit and my personality. I was the repeating dullard you mentioned. :) Not fun and enjoyable to be with - just sort of in a coma and very boring.

I think you have to be inebriated yourself to appreciate the effect.

It goes sour pretty quick.

It never enhanced my personality.:(

Enhanced me in the first years of drinking, maybe also since I wasn't shotting hard liquor but flowed beer into me sipping and relaxed. I wasn't really more outgoing - just the happy guy who still knew everything from the night before and also more creative with music.

That person changed rather quickly when the progressiveness started to haunt into me. I started to drink at home very often and in the end each day - the whole day if I could. The happy guy faded away and was replaced by a reclusive lethargic blackout person. Lying in bed most of the day with my beers and liquor beside me. All mind circulation was gone...

I think half a glass of wine was good for an introvert like me in a social setting, and if I stuck to that, no harm done. But I didn't; and anyway most of my drinking was done alone.

The ads would also have us believe that alcohol makes us more alluring to the opposite sex whilst at the same time being more sophisticated..................................... ...LOL

It surprises me how many alcoholics become anti-alcohol just because they gave it up. I know quite a few people who are more bubbly and more fun to be around after a couple of drinks. A couple of drinks to a normal drinker is OK, I will never go around preaching the evils of alcohol just because it doesn't agree with me. I'm allergic to peanuts and nuts, but that doesn't mean other people can't enjoy them.

I'm actually not anti alcohol TheEnd. I enjoyed a lot of things about drinking and hang out with my old friends who are drinkers and I've never been preachy. The things I say on here are different though, they reflect my fears about responding to alcohol in a certain way. I really don't want to be one of those sober alcoholics who thinks I'm missing out. We all approach things differently.

I agree with this ^^^

When I drank, my goal was to always loosen up and relax and therefore "enhance" my personality. The result was internally achieved most of the time, but externally it turned me into an antisocial, paranoid, depressed, and angry individual. FULL OF FEAR that was expressed very unhealthy.

There are many people who can have a few drinks, get the positive effects, the warm glo, release from inhibitions etc.etc. and let it go at that. For that group I think it can be a most enjoyable thing, not a problem at all. Alcohol is highly addictive tho and for those with a broken "off switch" the same few drinks are like lighting the fuse, buying a ticket to the haunted house of hangover hell. Same substance, very different results.

Robin Williams said it best: "Some people say that alcohol amplifies your personality. But what if you're an A#$%#$?"

:lmao

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