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Check out this scientific study that sheds light on this topic. Makes perfect sense and could explain this growing phenomena!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115963/Brain-scans-people-black-drinking--remember-gloat-morning.html
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"Long story short, you are in denial. You are probably an alcoholic. ". This is were I stopped reading
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Blackouts represent episodes of amnesia, during which subjects are capable of participating even in salient, emotionally charged events—as well as more mundane events—that they later cannot remember (Goodwin 1995). Like milder alcohol–induced memory impairments, these periods of amnesia are primarily “anterograde,” meaning that alcohol impairs the ability to form new memories while the person is intoxicated, but does not typically erase memories formed before intoxication. Formal research into the nature of alcohol–induced blackouts began in the 1940s with the work of E.M. Jellinek (1946). Jellinek’s initial characterization of blackouts was based on data collected from a survey of Alcoholics Anonymous members. Noting that recovering alcoholics frequently reported having experienced alcohol–induced amnesia while they were drinking, Jellinek concluded that the occurrence of blackouts is a powerful indicator of alcoholism.
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I'm 17 and my blackouts started 2 years ago. I used to drink a lot in earlier grades and have a high alcohol tolerance during grade 10 my blackouts started and I thought okay I haven't don't anything wrong I'm fine I didn't do anything stupid it's ok. Grade 12 came and I'd completely black out I'd be awake but I would not remember acting the way I was or saying the things I did I turned aggressive and people who know me know I'm not an aggressive angry person so I tried to just slow it down stick to coolers the blackouts still continue and I turn into this comepletely different person. I'm scared because everyone my age parties and I'm scared to drink.
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I felt compelled to reply to this particular post because I know the poster used an incomplete section of a source, ending their post on the inaccurate and ancient assumption that anyone who blacks out is an alcoholic.
I've researched this as well, and have seen the same info from which you took your excerpt. It's a shame you stopped at info which came from 1946. The article I saw had the same info you only partially pasted - it continued from where you left off. In fact dispelled the misinformation you posted. You chose to slant your post in favor of the notion that alcohol-induced blackouts are "a powerful indicator of alcoholism". That doesn't help the original poster or the many people who've scrolled through all of these posts following the original poster, not a single bit.
Here is a link to a comprehensive article I found recently, it's from a clinical standpoint, doesn't necessarily answer the question of what to do about blacking out, but it gives a ton of medical/scientific background on what's likely behind blacking out from alcohol consumption, and it's from more recently than 1946:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-2/186-196.htm
This next article, is one I also found helpful on the subject, and reassuring as well. It's from 2011, and is in more laymen's terms than a medical journal. Fair warning - it does include some examples of extreme behavior and situations, but one major takeaway from it is that THERE SHOULD NOT BE SHAME about blacking out. Shame keeps people from talking about their blackouts, which means they're not getting help to address them, nothing more. This second article also informs how to detect blackouts (if you're drinking with friends that is, and you trust a friend to share with him or her that you're concerned about blacking out, they can help you). And finally, the author closes the article with his email address. I imagine he's gotten boatloads of email from readers, I haven't tried to contact him, but even if not him, it gives hope that other doctors out there might be willing and able to address this scary issue; particularly without jumping to a referral to AA or insisting someone who blacks out must have a substance abuse problem and must go for counseling. Point is, this doctor's saying the issue of blacking out from alcohol is a medical one, and should be addressed as such. Hope this helps anyone looking for answers, at the very least, if you read this article you'll see it's far more common than people realize, and doctors are trying to learn more about the cause so it can be addressed properly.
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I could stop drinking all together but I enjoy it too . Its just on occassion I black out and yes it happens more frequently than Id like to admit.
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