[k123]

Hi everyone...how do you act drunk? I'm interested to know if being bpd changes the way u act when drunk. I have been told that I'm sooo different when I'm drunk compared to others and I am wanting to know if you are too? I mean not just drunk and silly how being drunk makes people act, I mean are u or have u been told u are outrageously different to others?

[greyclouds]

Yes, I can turn in to a horrible person. And if you've seen my posts extremely impulsive and dangerous.

All my BPD traits show when I've had a drink. Not always but a lot of the time.

I'm staying off drink. After what happened to me Thursday.

BPD and drink do not mix.

[ruby.lestrange]

This is a really interesting question, k123! I'm intrigued to see how others respond.

As for me, I (like grey) find that my traits are much more exaggerated when I've been drinking. Specifically, my impulsiveness and reckless behaviour can be much more dangerous to me. I also find that my everyday feelings of guilt (for any reason), emptiness, and unhappiness are multiplied a thousand fold the next day.

I don't drink very much any more. I've recently recognized that I had a problem with alcohol and the way it makes me behave, so I limit myself to a beer or a glass of wine once in a while, and only when I'm safe at home or with people I trust.

[greentires4me]

I get impulsive when I am drinking I either want more or I want others to drink the same amount as me. I can become the life of the party and I am buying drinks and we are all getting thoroughly drunk. Or I become a yeller and start yelling at inanimate objects in my room. I get possessive those who I am with and if they step out of line they hear about it from me. I think my BPD just gets intensified times 10...

I'm either the life of the party, or my traits are magnified. Usually both happen, it just depends on how drunk I am. There is a definite tipping point. And there is always amplified remorse the next day, a huge crash, and I'm left picking up the pieces for a while. I drink, but not to the point of getting drunk. In fact, because alcohol is such a depressant, I rarely go past a couple of drinks and that's usually only beer or wine.

I barely drink now but when I did I would turn into a nasty person I would act so impulsive too.

[Moraganal]

Hah I was very much so wondering myself. I become completely impulsive, needy and do thing I would NEVER do sober. I sometimes honestly become a completely different person. My emotions and feeling become erratic to the point where I don't lnow how to handle things and kind of go a little crazy. I avoid drinking as I always am in disgust with the way I handle things while im drunk.

[k123]

Wow everyone, my boyfriend is laughing because he's reading all your posts and saying its exactly like me..well at least we all fit in with each other : )

[poptart316]

I'm usually a pretty calm drunk.. although I have really bad anxiety and only drink in social settings so I think my SA prevents me from doing anything too crazy. I have had my moments though.. tequila and jack is not a good mix. : /

I do get impulsive though and then extremely lonely once I'm out of the social environment and often times get very irritable and can sometimes be volatile the next day.

Depends on how much I drink and the circumstances. One drink is enough to loosen my tongue and get rid of the anxiety and is enough to make me feel okay if I'm having issues. Any more than that and I can get nasty or very, very depressed as well as impulsive.

With the exception of the talking, I have the ability to act completely sober when drunk and can fool people quite easily and my memory is not impaired by extreme drinking. In fact, if I have a conversation when totally plastered, I can usually repeat it word for word the next day. I think the last two things come from my mom. She was often totally messed up while I was growing up and told myself that I'd never be like that.

i've only been all-out drunk twice. i know that if i let myself spend the money more often i would be an alcoholic. it helps me relax, and it quiets the negative thoughts. but i'm too cheap to buy it often. i maybe have a drink once every few months, maybe.

but i reacted differently for each time i was drunk. the first time was a few months before husband and i got married. i was still recovering emotionally from a bad relationship a few months before and while i was drunk i freaked out because i thought my husband (fiancé at the time) was the other guy for a few minutes. the second time was for valentine's day after daughter was born a year later. i had to stay on the alert because husband got sick from what we were drinking. we haven't gotten like that since, haha.

so, i have no idea how i am while i'm drunk. i was conscious of myself both times and neither time did i seem too different from my usual self. but idk.

I think that anyone that drinks to the point of drunkenness is going to act drastically different. Since it lowers inhibitions, people tend to let out those things that they keep inside more, they do things they wouldn't do if they were sober. I think in some ways that a person that seems calm and collected or seems like a "norm" would act even more outrageously because they keep things inside even more.

Idk that there is much of a rule about drunkenness that would be isolated to bpd, but then that's just my perspective.