Wasn’t sure whether to tag this chemistry or biology. I’m trying to understand why alcohol can make one person be referred to as a “fun drunk” and another turn extremely mean and want to constantly pick fights whether verbal or physical. People also say they can drink beer but can’t drink hard liquor because it makes them act an opposite way. Is it genes, sugar, the alcohol percentage …maybe triggers an enhancement in an existing personality? I’m sorry if I haven’t explained my question well. Thank you for any and all responses.
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My mom said one of her husbands always said that alcohol makes you more of whatever you were before you started drinking- mad, fighting, laughing, etc.
Good question! I think is is a habit that forms very early in life. It definitely can be changed once the drinker recognizes it
It’s more related to disinhibition from alcohol use I suspect. The underlying tone, or mood, is probably related to the person mental health/status.
It’s unlikely to be related to the type of alcohol or sugar content. At the most basic level, alcohol is the same for your body regardless of chaser or concoction. The body will still need to break it down the same way. The threshold for inebriation will vary from person to person depending on age, gender, BMI etc.
Alcohol lowers inhibitions. Good or bad, people are more carefree with how they express themselves when they drink
It’s an inhibition reducer so the more suppressed portions of their personality tends to become more pronounced. It also increases their propensity to take part in risk taking behaviours.
Alcohol lowers inhibitions. If you are the kind of person to think mean things but not say them because you know they would make people mad, alcohol makes you say mean things. If you want to hug people all the time but know that’s not a part of your culture, you become a clingy drunk. Toxicity MIGHT make a small difference (hard liquor vs beer), but behavior is personality-based.
The name rum comes from rumbullion, or the fighting Pirates would do when they drink it. The sugar was thought to make them more feisty.
It’s just removing your filters. If you get violent when you’re drunk, it’s because you’re a violent person who’s usually inhibited when sober. If you get really affectionate when drunk, it’s because you’re an affectionate person who’s more inhibited when you’re sober.
It doesn’t change who you are, it unleashes who you really are.
Alcohol lowers inhibitions, so if someone is hiding feelings of anger, resentment, sadness, or they have a happy cheerful demeanor at their core then alcohol exacerbates that. It doesn’t create emotions it brings them out. Also, it’s not the type of alcohol, rather just how much and how fast you drink it.
Alcoholic here. I think certain people have fun with it and certain people cope. There is no understanding person to person. Because it brings out happiness for some, and demons in others.
Alcohol is a depressant.
This doesn’t mean “depress” in the sense of “sad”. It means “depress” as in the verb: to push down.
It pushes down on your sense of self-control, your inhibitions, your knowledge of consequences, etc. You ignore all of those things and act without inhibition.
And it simply turns out that some people become assholes when they stop trying to pretend.
Personality traits. Humans are a soup of hormones and happenstance. Alcohol (and drugs) is just an amplifier.
Pretty sure who you are while drunk is about how well adjusted the person is emotionally and mentally. Though I have a friend that said different types of alcohol got her different types of drunk
Also worth noting that sugar is basically an opiate; it generally mellows people out and makes them happier. We literally refer to such mellow upbeat people as “sweet”. So there are good reasons to think that group A drinking straight vodka is going to be in a less pleasant mood than group B drinking sugary cocktails. That being said, drinks that contain fructose are especially bad, since that has to be processed in the liver too; drinking sugar with your alcohol significantly increases the time it takes your liver to process that out of your system. So yeah, to answer your question, different kinds of drinks hit very different. Health-wise, I’d say go with a neat pour of fine scotch; drunk personality wise, the sugary cocktails will tend to get you more drunk and more happy, at least until the sugar crash hits.
I think the consensus is that alcohol lowers inhibitions, which amounts to ‘letting the real you show’.