Alcohol!

[mikestar]

alcohol yes drugs never again

when I get pissed I do enjoy myself, but wake up next day and your just thinking that wasnt me last night it was the drink, this is what im really like.......
So do you need a drink everytime to enjoy yourself? im not telling you off as ive been there and I still wouldnt say no to a few cans a day

sp and to much alcohol dont mix your likely to become more aggressive,hey thats just my opinion

 

[veggielover]

Same exact thing with me. Alcohol fixes everything and makes me the confident person that I wish I was. It's true though, everyone likes me better when I'm drunk and its kind of upsetting because I can't be that person when I'm sober. Alcohol can only go so far to fix our problems...as fun as it is.

 

[Noca]

well xanax works the same as alcohol but sif its better for ya health
Im the same drinking takes all my inhibitions away and I am the complete opposite. Im pretty sure its the way i would be without SP

agreed. Take a benzo instead of alcohol, its much more healthier for your body.

 

[Noca]

alcohol yes drugs never again

Alcohol is a drug...

 

[mikestar]

Alcohol is a drug...

well dear me

 

[Forgetmenot_ak]

I'm that way as well. I actually will have a few drinks before meeting up with someone I haven't seen in a while, or before hanging out with someone for the first time... I'm still me, but I'm not so guarded. If I become friends with the person I gradually lay off the booze and eventually I'm myself, not nearly as guarded as I'd usually be, and sober. I feel terrible in saying it but, I think that alcohol has really caused me to improve my social life.

Don't get me wrong - I'm NOT a big partier. I will have the drinks before I even meet up with the person and I won't even tell them that I had a few drinks. I started hanging out with one of my best friends first by having some shots and being myself without the fear of his thoughts weighting on me. Now I see him almost every day and only drink on rare occasions when I'm around him, like if it's a "social drink"... otherwise, I'm fine around him sober now.

What medications do the same as alcohol? I can't even imagine...

 

[Forgetmenot_ak]

Thought I'd add.. don't get carried away or let it become a regular thing. With SA that can be really, really dangerous. SO MANY people with SA are alcoholics... Also, try not to get carried away even once... I've always been seen as the sweetest girl, most charitable, most kind, caring, and I've been in some pretty bad fights when I let alcohol take over, and I've done some pretty dumb things (I never remember these fights or these things, but I hear about them and turn bright red, and/or I'll wake up covered in bruises - once in high school I woke up in someone's yard lol... with bad bruises). It's also a depressant, so if you are like me and you accidentally get carried away one night, you might also find yourself sobbing about nothing on the shoulder of some guy you just met lhahah... And feeling like TOTAL idiot in the morning.

Only drink enough to be comfortable... don't drink to someone different.

 

[Kinetik]

Lately I'm drinking more or less every day. It's not good. But I just feel that medication is only half-helping. It calms me down a little, but it's not enough. I want to be a different person (comfortable and confident), and alcohol is the only legal thing that'll get me there.

 

[Imhotep]

I'm having a can right now...

It's weird that I know alcohol is part of the problem, not part of the solution, and yet have had so many times on the damn stuff where I've come across as a relaxed "normal" person.

"The cause of, and answer to all of life's problems" indeed!

 

[sleepysparrow]

I can never fully relax with someone new unless i've had a drink or two. I really love moderate alcohol in small amounts. More is sometimes fun too.

 

[Sinar_Matahari]

I'm not an alcoholic but I drink hellofalot! it helps me so much. I invited friends over mine last weekend and at the beginning I was all nervy, not knowing what to say, as soon as the drink started hitting me we were laughing, dancing, having a great laugh and I got a text the next morning saying how wicked and funny the night was, and that we got to do it more often etc etc, i'm even going away on holiday with them next month now and it means i'm going to have to pack alot of booze....

...This is the story of me though, i'm a totally different person when i'm absolutely drunk and a more fun person! say i'm half-sober and people want me to dance I quickly gulp drinks back so I get drunker and then have the nerves to dance! its terrible. bad for my health and the wrong way to get over my SP but its my only cure, although only temporary. If I had the confidence from what I get out of booze my life would be amazing.

Anyone else?

I don't know you but chances are that when you're drunk you're the person you would be if you didn't have SP.

 

[JCS008]

I agree. Alcohol definitely brings out your true inner self since it releases your inhibitions and allows you to relax and lossen up.

Chances are, the crying drunks are sad inside. The drunks who need to fight have something to prove, and the angry drunks are well.....angry.

Of course your current mood is a factor (so sometimes people may be sad drunk sgiven certain situations), but if you look at all the times you've gotten drunk, the personality that comes out the most often is who you truly are.

 

[Fleetingmoment]

Hi im new to this forum but couldnt avoid commenting on this issue

Alcohol is indeed a wonderful drug for SP... or is it, I sit here now after drinking a few glasses of wine and feel the best I have felt all week, but I know for certain tomorrow morning the alcohol effect will heighten all my emotions I feel as I prepare for work, this is a risk im willing to take but I know its wrong,

I've had SP for many years and gradually through my 20's I have become more dependent on alcohol even though i'd love to stop drinking it, its simply the only way to get through some days it seems.

I try and force myself to only drink 2 or 3 days a week because if I drink anymore the effect is not so potent and can have an adverse affect.

I really hope everyone who uses alcohol from an early age realises its brutal effects and thinks long and hard about using it, sometimes anxiety can be worse when your only "half drunk" believe me.

 

[x000x]

I really dislike alcohol. My parents have always been telling me that it's okay to drink when i want to, but I just don't like it. I was at a graduation party a couple weeks ago and there was drinking. When I got home my mom asked me if i had anything to drink and I said no. She said she was actually expecting me to drink and that it's fine with her and my dad if I do drink. I didn't tell her that I just don't like it because she would probably think that it's weird.

 

[doesit]

yeah drinking helps a lot,but my problem is when i start drinking i would drink all the night without stop and at the end make a fool of myself most of the times now if i could find the golden middle in this case

 

[JCS008]

keep count? I tried that at a wedding last year. I cut myself off at five drinks, and i still had fun but had a mild buzz which was cool.

 

[Rauhn]

I've used alcohol to be the person I've always wanted to be in social situations ever since I was 17 ... and that was 40 years ago. Until recently, I never thought that using alcohol, to become the confident, out-going, gregarious person I'd like to be, was a problem. I thought it was the solution because ... it works! Every time! Like others, people will comment on what fun I am and how funny I can be. If only I could be that way all the time. Without alcohol, I'd be standing off to the side and hardly open my mouth. Luckily, booze hasn't become a habit as I only drink when I go out ... which has become less and less as I look back ... about once a month. Avoidant Personality Disorder and the "isolation" factor. I've only recently realized that that's what's started to happen to me. Ah, well ... let's all go out and get drunk.

 

[lixor]

alcohol would help you because it works as an "anxiolytic", so your fears goes away.

if you want to avoid bad health outcomes due to alcohol, you can see a doctor to prescribe you some medications that work similarly to alcohol.

I hear what you're saying there pal but what the shit is "anxiolytic"? No need to make up words....I understand you probably know a thing or two about medical terminology but give me a break!

 

[klytus]

I hear what you're saying there pal but what the shit is "anxiolytic"? No need to make up words....I understand you probably know a thing or two about medical terminology but give me a break!

He explained it right there, "your fear goes away". Anxiolytic agents have an anti-anxiety effect. Learn about stuff first before you comment on it. The word is self-explanatory, by the way.

 

[whysoserious?]

I find im nervous and uncormfortable in a pub or bar until i've finished a few pints then i calm down. Then i started to drink at home so i didnt feel on edge at work or out in public. I used to be a "functioning alcoholic" as my friend said, id be drinking too much but i'd still make it to work on time. I didn't do alot but i made it in.
I've kinda sorted my self out nowadays, i still like a drink but im not drinking everyday. I think alot of it was because i had turned 18 so i could buy it all myself and i went a bit hog wild.