jai
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Alcohol
Apr 30, 2009 5:54:31 GMT -5
Post by jai on Apr 30, 2009 5:54:31 GMT -5
Alcohol works the best. I come out of my shell and people say I get alot more talkative when I'm tipsy. Guess I got it in me. Shall I stay tipsy forever? I wish I could.
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Apr 30, 2009 8:42:10 GMT -5
Post by Sweet Pea on Apr 30, 2009 8:42:10 GMT -5
Alcohol works the best. I come out of my shell and people say I get alot more talkative when I'm tipsy. Guess I got it in me. Shall I stay tipsy forever? I wish I could. safe to say that's not a good idea. it's called alcoholism and it's not a pretty picture.
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jai
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Apr 30, 2009 18:09:37 GMT -5
Post by jai on Apr 30, 2009 18:09:37 GMT -5
of course I realise that which is why i can only carry on wishing
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Apr 30, 2009 20:14:21 GMT -5
Post by Sweet Pea on Apr 30, 2009 20:14:21 GMT -5
of course I realise that which is why i can only carry on wishing i had a feeling you did.
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Post by nigella on May 6, 2009 1:42:04 GMT -5
Also alcohol is a depresant and if u get depressed anyway it will make u feel ten times worse.
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Mar 24, 2010 7:38:00 GMT -5
Post by ItsNotAPorkChop on Mar 24, 2010 7:38:00 GMT -5
I think alcohol makes me more confident, but only as in I just feel more comfortable in the enviroment after I've had a few drinks.
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Mar 24, 2010 7:39:28 GMT -5
Post by ItsNotAPorkChop on Mar 24, 2010 7:39:28 GMT -5
Also alcohol is a depresant and if u get depressed anyway it will make u feel ten times worse. One of the bad things that happen to me when I get too drunk that, get majorly depressed. I have IBS too so its not good for me to have much alcohol.
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Apr 9, 2010 13:24:37 GMT -5
Post by geekguy on Apr 9, 2010 13:24:37 GMT -5
I do tend to loosen up a bit once I'm tipsy. I drink for the taste and not to get drunk though (I've gotten super drunk twice and regretted it both times), which means I don't drink beer much, if at all (theres like 1 brand that I slightly enjoy, the rest taste horrible to me). Because of that, I can't drink much at most house parties because all they have is beer . I do however enjoy the taste of many many different kinds of cocktails, bourbon, Port, some wine, Gin'n'Tonic, cruisers, and more. I'm never afraid to have a "girly" drink because chances are it'll taste much nicer than whatever the people who would bag me for it are drinking I want to learn to mix drinks, and get some experience working a bar thats more into cocktails than tap beer (I go to a place that does this every so often). Need money though >_> Latest drink was a "Black Russian" btw, tasted very nice, not that I have any idea what was in it xD I want to drink this one day... It has a freaking crab claw and a scotch egg in it! How can I say no to that!
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Apr 13, 2010 1:04:27 GMT -5
Post by outgoingbutshy on Apr 13, 2010 1:04:27 GMT -5
same here, geekguy ;D I for the most part drink for the taste. Tonight though, I wanted to see just what I could feel like if I drank a little more than I usually do, which isn't very often anyway. I had 3 coffee liquor type drinks (20% alc); the first drink made me a little tipsy, the second and third I hardly felt at all. My face got flushed red though. I get even more silly when I drink, but not too too bad. Mostly even more "amorous" for Trad Sweetheart mmmhmm. well we'll see how I feel later this morning as it is a little after 3 am my time here in my part of canada. right now i don't feel too bad. i don't feel sick (like I thought I might feel) and I don't feel tipsy or drunk. I am getting tired though, but that's par-for-the-course with me at this hour of the early am lol. i will try to sleep now. if i can't i have some nice romance books i can read til i get sleepy.
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Apr 13, 2010 13:45:27 GMT -5
Post by outgoingbutshy on Apr 13, 2010 13:45:27 GMT -5
This is just an update since my last post talked about my drinking "experiment" so-to-speak: Well I woke up late (i usually do, so that's no surprise as I prob got to sleep about 5 am - insomniac here!) this morning. I was all right physically. No "hangover" like some get. No headache. No stomach troubles. But I was very very depressed and "weepy" (crying). So maybe - for me - my "hangover" is more emotional, rather than physical. I've been feeling weepy/crying since I woke up. Had my tea and toast a u; but still somewhat feel like crying (well there is an emotional catalyst for my tears, though). I'm feeling really "raw" emotionally. Right now: 3:40 pm my time and I am still weepy/depressed; my heart is thumpy, but that's from my emotions (I can tell). Other things I noticed last night while drinking: my face got very flushed; and though I was initially *horny*; as time grew on and with the succeeding drinks, I wasn't feeling quite as *sexy* as earlier. So, I'm thinking - for me, alcohol reduces my "libido" as it were. And the same this morning, I tested my "libido" lol; but because my emotional feelings of sadness are overriding everything else, today also I have virtually no libido, even when doing some "personal" things to try to charge it up, sorda. lol. So, in conclusion, so far, I've seen: I cannot get "drunk" (at least not with "spirits" - only a tad "tipsy", but only with the first drink, the second and third drinks did not increase my "tipsiness"; my hangover is emotional, not physical my "libido" (which is normally - when i haven't had any alcohol - sky high lol!) is drastically reduced (so there's no point in a guy if he were to meet me at a bar, for him to try to get me to drink to see if he could get me "into bed" for a "one-night stand" - unless he were to spike it with a drug, of course that might and prob would be a different story!) note: maybe i should try beer; but, like Geekguy, I am not especially fond of beer. I've always hated the smell of it as my parents drank it at home, esp. my dad, on the weekends. And wine, I cannot tolerate it unless I have it with meals. I'll have to give all this some further thought .
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Apr 13, 2010 13:58:55 GMT -5
Post by outgoingbutshy on Apr 13, 2010 13:58:55 GMT -5
i just thought of sompin: it's more like a comparison though. Remembering the last instance in my life that I ingested something and upon waking felt the same way as I described in my update post (above): oxazepam - given me when i was 17 for my nerves - 30mg/BID. I took one; went to sleep; woke up weepy. hmmm so the benzodiazepenes and alcohol cause the same next day effects on me emotionally...ah now we're getting somewhere. okay. i. c. (But Dr. "Fab" put me on Serax 15 for sleep when I was in the psychiatric ward of the hospital in 1993 when i was in there for anxiety/depression! ) [insert: STOS again: "Examine. Sterilize imperfections. Examine..." - Nomad "The Changeling" (season 2, STOS)]
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Aug 1, 2010 21:37:21 GMT -5
Post by timarends on Aug 1, 2010 21:37:21 GMT -5
Alcohol doesn't work. So many people think it does, that's why there's so much drinking at parties, but researchers have actually tested this. They studied a lot of shy subjects, and found that they actually became more withdrawn after drinking! The thing is, they thought they had become more outgoing!
Alcohol blurs your judgment. A problem with this is that it can cause you to be more likely to say the wrong thing.
My grandmother had a theory that alcohol tends to bring out your natural personality. If you're naturally shy and quiet, it will make you even more so. If you're naturally loud and extroverted, it will exaggerate that. And with everybody, it blurs the judgment. Usually not a good thing!
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Dec 19, 2010 22:36:19 GMT -5
Post by gals on Dec 19, 2010 22:36:19 GMT -5
Well maybe not a cure or a good one at that. But back when I was really shy,, if I had a few beers it would work. I just wouldn't care and would talk to any woman like I was Don Juan,, But after too many I was just a Joe average drunk,,lol. LOL Yep, it's true that alcohol does help in bringing out the gutsier, less inhibited side in us, but one must not always rely on it in our confidence attempts all the time. We should always strive to act out naturally on our own.
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May 5, 2011 10:52:49 GMT -5
Post by ura on May 5, 2011 10:52:49 GMT -5
A little bit of alcohol helps to relax you in situations. maybe it's a placebo effect at small amounts of alcohol but I find it helps.
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Jun 17, 2011 3:49:12 GMT -5
Post by ura on Jun 17, 2011 3:49:12 GMT -5
I cannot speak for everyone, but I'd have to say that, for me, alcohol works the best, aside from medications like pain killers (such as Vicodin or Tramadol). Drugs like Ativan and other pills made to reduce stress have done nothing for me perhaps because I have 0 stress in most situations to begin with. Sadly, I can't really take pain killers or drink because I'm taking antipsychotics and antidepressants. Alcohol inhibits the part of the brain that inhibits you from acting in ways you wouldn't normally act; it can help, but it heavily depends on what kinda person you are. It can make your situation worse if you aren't aware of how you react to it. If you can handle drinking and if it doesn't turn you into an idiot, then go for it. I tend to like drinks with rum the most. I agree, a little is effective and considering how many people drink alcohol for similar reasons and how common phrases like Dutch courage are shows how effective alchohol is.
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