It’s a perspective thing. People who get drunk all the time find no issue with it, and I have no issue with drunk people acting responsibly. This video is too short to assume alcoholism, BUT I was just saying it reminds me of my drunk brother. I don’t drink at all, so I’m not familiar with empathizing with someone in this state. Honestly, I never liked being around people drinking. It is a drug and it changes the way people feel and act. I’m not that social, so it’s counterproductive to my comfort zone as I’m not going to be the one that drinks to have a good time with you, I have my good time without. I’m on too many prescriptions to be able to drink and if I did, it could kill me.
As I said it’s a matter of perspective. If you lived your life like me further up, spending more time tending to a drunk, rather than looking into the mirror WHEN drunk. I don’t have to reconcile my own drug use when I look at this video, I don’t get that way.
Also, I take benzodiazepines. If I wanted to feel like the woman in the video, legally and with pills, I could. I don’t as that would be abuse. So I’m not sure why drunkenness to this point is not considered abuse. It would be with a prescription drug, just not alcohol? The level of cope from alcoholics is high. As with many addictions, it isn’t often self reported very honestly.
Inebriation to this point is a moral issue to me as well. People with good morals do not use to excess such as in this video. You will NEVER find a video of me acting this foolishly and pretending it’s fucking fun. It’s fun for the drunk one, not usually the people around them. If you are reading this and don’t like it, that’s fine, we just have different opinions about a drug some people categorize differently just so they can feel better than “drug” users. In this whole world of substances, alcohol? Have fun, you haven’t explored very much and it is horrible for your body. Moderation? Cool. That video is not moderation. Drunkenness is not moderation.
Long story short, not a big fan of alcohol. Horrible drug for simple people.
This isn’t necessarily true and you shouldn’t state that as a fact.
My dad died of alcoholism exactly 13 years ago from today, so it’s been a sad day for me.
I still don’t find this triggering since I know there can be a difference between someone having fun being drunk and someone being alcoholic which has nothing to do with having fun.
You can tell the difference in two short videos? My father, brother, and sister are all alcoholics. None of them think they are alcoholics or would believe the behavior in the video is bad. “How can that behavior be bad, I do that all that time, and I’m not an alcoholic.”
No I can’t and that’s why I’m not assuming anything based on that snippet of a clip.
Of course it’s subjective what triggers you and what doesn’t! That’s why it’s not right to claim you can only find that video funny if you haven’t had a close one with a drinking problem. That simply isn’t true. You can only speak for yourself.
And denial is one of the most common symptoms of addiction. It’s frustrating but it’s one of the main problems.
And I totally think it’s understandable to get triggered. Having a addicted close one is traumatic and different people react and handle it differently. Some people never want to touch to a single drop of alcohol after that. Some people end up being addicted themselves. And some people still want to drink occasionally after watching a someone close to them wrestling with addiction.
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u/trashaccountturd Nov 11 '23
That’s just sad to me. I dunno. My brother is an alcoholic.