(April 16, 2016 at 3:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: To answer your question, Evie, alcohol is a depressant in that it inhibits some brain activity, in this cases forebrain operation.
Prefrontal cortex perchance?
Quote:The first thing to go is judgment, especially of one's own thoughts or actions. This makes you feel happier and more convivial in the sense that you don't question your own activities, but go with the flow ... and we feel more "natural" for it.
Makes sense. So it's a "depressant" in a similar way to "low mood" in psychiatry doesn't necessarily mean "negative mood" just as "high mood" can include irritability. So it refers to low energy rather than low pleasure? Just as "high mood" refers to high energy rather than high pleasure... have I got that about right?
Quote:I always enjoyed the first stage, depressing judgment and inhibitions. Too much for my own good. I would get to that level buzz and nurse it, but then days I wasn't like that, I felt flat, unalive. Bad sign. When you want that shimmer on the day, you may just jump down the rabbit-hole, where no day is complete without it. I did. If it was a good day, I'd "celebrate" with some good beer. If it was a shitty day, I'd tell myself to go home and unwind with a couple or six. Not saying anything about you, just relaying my own experiences.
Thanks for sharing Thumpy.
I personally find tipsiness to be awesome but full on drunkenness to be mostly negative.
I am guessing the problem is that like addiction to anything else -- one can become desensitized so it takes more and more just to get a little tipsy. Must be easy to lose one's place and go too far.
I shall try to never go too far beyond tipsiness.
To be permanently tipsy in feeling? That would be kinda cool!
We must make sure we never finish our second drink, lol. Any more than very nearly two drinks is a disaster, lol.
I find this video hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUlDNs8j-Q
To be honest though some folks behave that way anyway!
Quote:Be careful -- the hook is very fine, but it bites deep.
Thank you. I can imagine. "Just one more" is a danger, always *** (Good song though! (if you like any purely electronic purely instrumental music):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wanGIbbPEfw
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*** Especially for ex-alcoholics, but for everyone to an extent.... (and also especially to those with addictive personalities/below average self-control).
