New girl -- Alcohol abuse and blackouts
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Liverpool
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I get the blackouts. All the time. They are scary. I woke up on my friends sofa the other week which totally confused me.
Turns out, someone had seen me wandering around in the town and told a friend, who then sent her boyfriend to find me. He rescued me from two slimy men who were buying me drinks.
This was after almost crashing into a lampost and driving down a motorway on a tyre that had blown out and down to bare metal.
It's a sign of alcoholism. Middle stages apparently.
I am tired today, I have accepted I am without a doubt an alcoholic, despite hating the word and frightened that I will cave in. Day 5 for me .
Turns out, someone had seen me wandering around in the town and told a friend, who then sent her boyfriend to find me. He rescued me from two slimy men who were buying me drinks.
This was after almost crashing into a lampost and driving down a motorway on a tyre that had blown out and down to bare metal.
It's a sign of alcoholism. Middle stages apparently.
I am tired today, I have accepted I am without a doubt an alcoholic, despite hating the word and frightened that I will cave in. Day 5 for me .
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Western Maryland
Posts: 1,091
I am 26. Before I quit I was blacking out no matter what I was drinking, or how much. It will not get better or go away. Please stop now while you are still young and have your whole life to be smart and sober. I am 3.5 months sober and it's the best decision I have ever made.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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Hi, I don't know if you're still reading this page, but I can relate to your experiences.
It definitely seems like I black out more quickly now (22) than I used to. Early on in my freshman year of college, I could drink a lot and get drunk, but I remembered more. Then the blackouts hit hard and kept coming. I took a year and a few months off drinking, drank moderately fine for a while, and now have trouble not blacking out.
And I can say that a year and a half with no alcohol whatsoever, and a year of moderate drinking (1-2 drinks once every other week), did not help anything. I am still very capable of blacking out after 5 or 6 or 7 drinks, which I WILL drink if I pass my 2 or 3 beer limit. It's terrifying. I'm quite sure I would not have blacked out at those levels when I was in high school.
I also relate to your strange blackouts. Friends have seen me wandering the campus, completely unresponsive to them, hours after I have stopped remembering anything. I think I am really loud and happy for awhile and then drink to oblivion, except I don't pass out or throw up.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a chemical response our bodies produce to alcohol, probably caused by some genetic predisposition + alcohol abuse in our teenage years. When I posed this question on the boards, people kept saying: the blackouts come faster and thicker the more you get them.
But, hey, if we don't drink, we can't black out
It definitely seems like I black out more quickly now (22) than I used to. Early on in my freshman year of college, I could drink a lot and get drunk, but I remembered more. Then the blackouts hit hard and kept coming. I took a year and a few months off drinking, drank moderately fine for a while, and now have trouble not blacking out.
And I can say that a year and a half with no alcohol whatsoever, and a year of moderate drinking (1-2 drinks once every other week), did not help anything. I am still very capable of blacking out after 5 or 6 or 7 drinks, which I WILL drink if I pass my 2 or 3 beer limit. It's terrifying. I'm quite sure I would not have blacked out at those levels when I was in high school.
I also relate to your strange blackouts. Friends have seen me wandering the campus, completely unresponsive to them, hours after I have stopped remembering anything. I think I am really loud and happy for awhile and then drink to oblivion, except I don't pass out or throw up.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a chemical response our bodies produce to alcohol, probably caused by some genetic predisposition + alcohol abuse in our teenage years. When I posed this question on the boards, people kept saying: the blackouts come faster and thicker the more you get them.
But, hey, if we don't drink, we can't black out
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