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Tanin


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Here's. A nicely informative summary of a couple of books and a NIAA research paper on blackouts and memory:

http://www.alcoholaddict.info/alcohol-addiction/alcohol-blackout-facts-behavior.html

 

Here's the full 2004 NIAAA paper:

What Happened? Alcohol, Memory Blackouts, and the Brain

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-2/186-196.htm

 

Gawd, I hated blackouts. They frightened me tremendously. I would usually cool it awhile after one. But then it would happen again . . .



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Interesting!

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Ooooeeew, blackouts ... ... ... you'd think I'd have scared myself sober with the ones I had ... one of my worst ones was when I got on the wrong interstate highway and drove across Nebraska ... when I came 'to', it scared me to death to find out I was in the wrong state and a couple hundred miles from where I should have been ...



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What were we talking about?

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The dreaded question of every alcoholic.....

Do you remember what you did last night? nono



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Rob84 wrote:

The dreaded question of every alcoholic.....

Do you remember what you did last night? nono

 oh yeah. And the unique mash-up look of disgust, disbelief and pity as the question is put. And the feelings of horror, fear, self-loathing as you try and remember.

Shudders....sober is good.

Steve



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It's really scary when you realize the next morning that you drove to the liquor store in a blackout and have no memory, or as I had recently, my husband told me we needed to separate and I had no recollection at all. Yikes!

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YES. The worst was trying to subtly get information from people about 'what happened last night' without letting on that you don't remember a damn thing. I blackout drank from the age of 15. I am SO SO grateful I don't have the risk of blacking out these days! I like remembering.

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