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Allergy to alcohol
by Hazel, Aug 20, 2000 12:00AM
My friend tells me she is allergic to alcohol and gets very hyperactive when she drinks, but over the weekend she drank beer had went completly mental for no reason. She was completly erational and violent. I thought an allergy was more of a physical thing. Is it possible for an allergy to affect your behaviour in this way or is there more to it?
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Many people react violently while on alcohol. It is not necessarily that the alcohol is making them violent but it is simply bringing out repressed feelings of unexpressed anger.
Alcohol is known to reduce your sense of social behaviour and causes some to be so called "loose" if that's what's really deep down inside them, others become calm or tired, they may be overworked or stressed and the booze relaxes them. Others get violent. There are many violent crimes related directly to intoxication.
One time I was so drunk I cussed out a cop in my own driveway while asking him to remove my violent and beligerent boyfriend because he did not want to seem to help me because we were both drunk. I even told him I wanted him to die! That's not usually my attitude while in a disagreement.
The cop commented to his buddies that I probably would not remember it the next day. I don't have blackouts so I did rememeber it embarrassingly enough and called the precinct the next day to apologize.
That was minor compared to fights I almost got into just due to drunken hostility.
Hazel, your friend is not allergic to alcohol in my opinion. only repressing old anger from way back deep in her subconscious and the booze allows it to come out.
Doug, well said! Even though alcohlism is not exactly an allergy so to speak it is the main problem described and your solutions are the answers to it.
I am almost at 90 days, not much, but a record for me too!