Physical and Mental Effects of Consuming Alcohol
Physical and Mental Effects of Consuming Alcohol
Alcohol is a drug and people use it in different ways. People drink anywhere from moderately to habitually. When classifying drinkers how would you go about it? Is it in their style, how much they drink in an allotted period of time or is it the level of conversations that they use while drinking? I use all three. Regardless of the fact, I have noticed that even within a particular group of drinkers that their personalities are quite different. To me, drinkers fall into one of the three following categories: the bonsai drinkers, the weekend warriors or meet the people drinkers.
Drinking to some people is like brushing your teeth. Most people brush multiple times a day. Could you imagine having your toothbrush in your mouth all day every day, day in and day out? Well this is how my first group of people drink alcohol. It appears to me as if the bonsai drinkers can’t even start their day unless they have a drink of some sort, whether it is a beer or a shot of tequila. They will drink anywhere there is alcohol, whether it is at their house or even while driving. Nonetheless, bonsai drinkers are a risk to themselves as well as many others that they may come in contact with, while drinking. I have noticed a couple reasons why people start to drink this way. First, the already depressed individual may have lost a loved one, the only thing keeping him/her together emotionally. In this case, drinking excessively would result in a temporary block of emotions related to their tragic experience. They feel if they’re drunk all day, they will never have to face the facts of reality. Secondly it could be because a husband or wife had lost a job that they relied on to support their family, here they feel as if they are a failure not only to themselves, but the rest of their family. Bonsai drinking can lead to worse circumstances than the reason they started drinking for. It can lead to the break up of their family or even worse, the individual can become so depressed they might even take their own life to escape their pain.
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