When drinking alcohol, stress makes you more drunk?

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Does this apply to some of you?

It does apply to me slightly.

Or maybe it's just my observation, I dunno.

Well with me, the social scenario makes me drink even more because of my anxiety which obviously makes me more drunk.

It's a scientific phenomenon called alcohol myopia. Basically, when you drink it enhances whatever emotion you happen to be feeling at the time. So if you're happy, and you drink, you get happier, but if you're depressed, and you drink, then you get more depressed. There's been studies done on it.

Sounds about right, now that I'm not sick in the head I can drink copious amounts of it and well "nothing" :

Unlike in the past

Are you ok I presume your still on disability , I hope you get off it sooner than latter .

Perhaps at job interviews we should get people drunk and see what happens

I don't drink, apart from special occasions. But I've witnessed it for myself and I agree with what has been said already, your mood is most likely to be enhanced based on your mood before drinking. Also, as it slows down your brain it lowers your inhibitions as well as rational thinking. All things in moderation kids.

Job interview? If your even "lucky" enough to have one that is. With hundreds of people applying for one job and unless you already have years of experience your lucky to even get a reply from an application. In this country anyway.

I'm alright.. struggling a bit atm but I'll get past it.

it took me awial to see it but not drunk,tired, i think i'm drunk, then go home and walla, sober as the day is long. it is the interaction-overload

Good I hope you do

Thanks.

Well at the risk of sounding creepy though I should be ok since you like creepy we could have been disability pension buddies I made 2 in the process / though one has "disappeared" I should check if he his still alive.

So where do the disability pensioner ladies hang out Serious question I would have thought at the library, but I haven't seen you here or any others for that matter.

possibly, although i think more likely stress makes sensory overload worse, and both are likely to occur when out at a "social" event in an unfamiliar or crowded place and where I am also likely to have a drink (and usually just one, because it does often feel like several). for me sensory overload can often feel like being a little drunk, or high, so it's a perplexing soup. I discovered when I ceased drinking as often as I did during my 20s that a lot of things I had attributed to being a bit drunk when out had nothing to do with the alcohol at all.

Also many years before discovering AS I had on a number of occasions attributed my disorientation to the possibility of my drink being spiked with something or joint I smoked being laced with something, which produced effects I could not make sense of, and although they seemed unlikely scenarios I had no plausible one to explain the episodes, so I had to guess something. "low blood sugar" was another guess, which was miraculously alleviated by leaving a crowded retail store for a locale that provided a less chaotic visual field.

sorry if this is a bit obtuse.