fractal enchantment wrote:I am just thankful I was only exposed to it more or less indirectly, becasue I grew up close to my grandparents and saw them all the time and my grandfather is one of the craziest drunk I know. He gets mean and angry and treats my grandmother like shit every time he drinks, which is always. He is old and sick now and people have had to take care of him time and time again. One day my grandmother went away for the day and he ended up falling over and smashing his head right through a big glass coffee table and my aunt found him later passed out on the floor..another time he was walkin back from town and fell over and broke his hip and again, just passed out that way until someone found him..on another occasion he fell off my parents balcony becasue he was hammered and broke his other hip. One time when I was a kid he nearly ran me over with his outboard engion when I was water skiing and my mother had to freak out and scream at him..he gets hammered all the time and goes off on his ATV hunting..guns and alcohol dont mix BTW.. The guy is just a crazy ass drunk and he gets very mean often when he is hammered. I remember when I was a kid and used to stay over at they're house he would be up at like 6am already halfway through a bottle of wine, or worse well into a bottle of whiskey..I am really surprised my father is not an alcoholic at all growing up in a house like that, nor is his sister..I guess they saw enough of it to realize how fucked up it really is.
Sounds a bit like my father. I haven't seen him for more than 10 years now and i don't know if he's still alive or not. As a kid i saw him drinking himself uncounscious every night.
Alcoholism is one of the worst conditions a human being can reach.
Of all drugs, alcohol is definately one of the least pleasant ones. Beside the hangovers it gives when a bit too much of it is consumed, wich is always sooner than the drinker thinks, it will always leave you more unhappy afterwards than you where before drinking it.
I don't drink for many years now, and i'm very happy with that. In all of my life i never had a morning that i woke-up thinking:"i'm glad i drunk that much last night". It never gives you anything.
Some people drink in order to 'score' some sex.....only to find out they need more drinks in order to forget about the sex they've obtained that way.
Alcohol never brings out the best in humans, but more than often the worst. Especially when combined with stimulants.
Alcohol is a GABA-ergic drug like valium or GHB. When taken 'socially' in only small amounts, it isn't that bad (although i wouldn't say it's good) but when taken as a drug to sedate the mind, it is not in any way milder than all of those other GABA-ergic's: Like GHB, it's a rape-drug, like valium it numbs the mind, like both it's addictive, toxic and it inhibit's almost any mental skill to the extreme.