I have a question. Is it possible for a drinker to have blackouts even when they're not drinking at the time? An incident occured while my husband was in a full on rage early one morning. He hadn't been drinking but he has no memory of what happened. I believe him about it as the look on his face was pure shock after I spoke to him about it.
I have heard of alcoholics going out to the shop to buy some milk or something, and finding themselves in the carpark of the liquor store with no idea how they got there, part of the no defence thing. I have also heard of folks under stress (this happened to my father when I was drinking) having a strange "turn" in the night. It only happened once and I don't know the reason, though I have a fair idea what the cause was.
I'd suggest a visit to the doctor is in order, could be nothing, could be as serious as an aneurism, stroke, or something of that nature.
We always treated syncopal episodes and altered loc calls as ALS as a paramedic
translation: we always treated fainting, black outs, altered level of consciousness calls (person, place, time, situation) as life threatening, since in a surprising number of cases they were
don't mean to be alarmist but better safe then sorry
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Of course a medical doctor is in order. Psychologically speaking - people do "black out" from time to time and it varies from being a rather normal experience to being a serious mental problem. On the more healthy and normal end - All of us tend to "zone out" for periods of time, like driving on a staight long stretch of highway and then realizing we just drove 60 miles and it seemed like it wasn't that long. On the pathological end, a person dissociates and loses memory of large periods of time. That is when they would be diagnosed with a mental disorder such as intermittent explosive disorder (where rages are so intense that the person will describe it as out of body) or dissociative identity disorder (which is old school multiple personality). My guess would be that he got so enraged and his blood started pumping to his head so much that it was like an out of body experience - plus it was unpleasant and maybe out of character for him so the rest of him and his psyche would rather forget that incident.
If not that, then a simple medical solution might exist also.
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I'd suggest a visit to the doctor is in order, could be nothing, could be as serious as an aneurism, stroke, or something of that nature.
We always treated syncopal episodes and altered loc calls as ALS as a paramedic
translation: we always treated fainting, black outs, altered level of consciousness calls (person, place, time, situation) as life threatening, since in a surprising number of cases they were
don't mean to be alarmist but better safe then sorry
This was my first thought as well. Could have been a TIA (mini stoke) or something.
