My good friend drinks about 3 times a month if he's got the extra time, and he always blacks out and becomes a complete jerk. What causes the mind to go into alternate personalities? He was not making sense and was calling all of us by different names and was hostile towards us and was pushing everyone like they were trying to fight him. We just didn't want him to hurt himself, but he didn't recognize any of us.
Answer:
Alcohol is a toxin to the body and when one drinks too much the brain kind of shuts off (black outs). Higher brain functions are shut down due to the toxic influences of the alcohol (the brain is trying to preserve itself). So, when one drinks too much all the social graces and rules of conduct are lost and those raw emotions and first reactions come tumbling out. The other piece of this is the dangerous nature of blackouts. The brain becomes overwhelmed by the alcohol and shuts off, this process then makes it more likely that one will have future blackouts during drinking. The blackouts will happen quicker because the brain anticipates what is coming and shuts off early to avoid the damage being caused. Blackouts are very serious and could result in the death of your friend. Sometimes people describe it as "losing time". Anyway, try to get your friend to see someone who treats alcohol abuse disorders and talk to him about how he acts and the dangers he is putting himself in. He is already hurting himself and might want to reconsider the drinking.
Yes alcohol changes personality. People can become very funny and quiet, or aggressive and beligerent. Have you spoken to him about how he acts when he drinks? Maybe he does not fully know how the alcohol changes him. He might appreciate knowing.
alcohol shuts down t he logic and reasoning part of the brain at that point in a stage of drunken ness. It is said the the mind then "acts" out raw emotions or feelings that lie in the subconscious. so the feelings and the way that your friend acts are probably the stress, and raw feelings, that are deep with in the mind that does not get shown when sober. This is one of the dangers of drink that much. this is ow in some case murders are committed, with no reticulation of the crime, or perhaps rape. This has been brought up in Court as a defense during some cases. I would tell your friend to talk to someone about what is going on in his life that others do not see, the stress, and frustration, to clear his mind before drinking that much , and if i were you, try no to let him drink that much.
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