Posted by 3 Beer Effect on March 19, 2002, at 1:49:45
In reply to Now we know how you came by your screen name :) (nm) » 3 Beer Effect, posted by Ron Hill on March 19, 2002, at 0:19:59
I picked the name 3 Beer Effect because I noticed after 3 Beers I felt "normal" for the first time. Sober, I have too much anxiety & have trouble talking to girls. At 3 Beers my confidence level is high, the world seems a better place, I have no anxiety, feel perfectly comfortable, & could engage in long conversations with girls without forgetting there names. 2 Beers or less & I still had anxiety, and from the 4th beer onward my behavior deteriorates until I have no inhibitions at all & act like an idiot.
I tried most of the illegal drugs seeking this same feeling & came across dissapointment. So then I thought "alcohol is like a 3000 year old drug & if it works this well, psychiatrists must have some great stuff at their disposal because of all the technological advances of the last 100 years." Alas, i've tried just about every psychiatric drug & nothing even comes close to this "3 Beer Effect". (right now I take Klonopin, the greatest thing for social anxiety since sliced bread & it doesn't even come close to alcohol).
I haven't drank since September, and am returning to college in the fall- i'll give the klonopin a good trial, but if that doesn't work well i'll probably end up ditching the psychiatric meds & just binge drink on the weekends (like I used to), but somehow work moderation & maturity into there. (My GPA dropped like a rock when I stopped drinking & sought out psychiatric care for depression, but was fine (2.5) before when I was a "party animal" every thursday, friday, & saturday night on par with Jim Belushi in Animal House).
It will be my last year in college, & I've figured out you can't really binge drink outside of college in real life. You can't walk home, & a taxi ride to the suburbs would be too expensive - You would get arrested for DWI or if you were rowdy in a bar you would get thrown out & arrested for public intoxication or drunk & disorderly.
Where I go to college in Austin, TX a cab ride to the famous 6th street bar scene is only $6 for 3 people each way & Austin police are very lenient don't usually arrest people for public intoxication. And if I go to college parties, it seems everyone is getting wasted. Since it is my last year of college, I don't know if I should party it up & then retry all these worthless psychiatric meds after I graduate to a depressing cubicle in some office or just take my meds & not drink which i've found to be very boring & not a whole lot of fun when everyone else around you is getting drunk.
Maybe after I graduate I should just move to England or Australia, where everyone drinks and there is no stigma about it, & there's a pub on every corner!
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