Why drinkers do it all again – they only recall the good bits

Makes complete and total sense. Now pass da Jack!

On the contrary, let me just get a whiff of Vodka and it ALL comes back

Don't drink like an asshole and every night can be a great one!

Sure, drinking is bad when you do it in an extreme excess, but what's bad with getting belligerently drunk on a Friday night and forgetting the dumbass stuff you've done.

it's funny that so many people glorify blacking out, and if you don't, then you're considered a sissy. Then those same people that glorified you destroy you by coloring all sorts of obscenities all over your body and laugh hysterically as one of your good friends tries to make genital-to-face contact with you. Oh yeah, you're a real hero.

its so true. you drink yourself into a stupor, go puke your guts out, feel like shit for 3 days and 2 or 3 weeks later you do it again. remember the puking and the guilt and the icy stares from those who care about you. then remember it again, and again. dont sound like fun but youll feel better in the morning.

I think that everyone does this to some degree.

We are socialized... alcohol is an acceptable poisonous drug! Memory is affected because it kills brain cells... Hello!

My biggest sins were done drunk.....since liquor is a nice little poison, its fun to let it coax you into good times every weekend. :D

aaahhhhh.... maybe I should rethink my drinking habits...

I wish i only remembered the good stuff!

i think they have it all wrong. what they don't get is that every part of a night of binge drinking is the good part.

Interesting...

Nothing a well a placed video camera can't cure.

makes sense to me but i think it more complex than just that.

overcoming an addiction is so difficult when you are at a loss of what to do with yourself the next day - you have no outlet for your energy and drive - or no outlet for your depression and anger.

binge drinking is about escape and it takes a lot of guts to say i am ready to face reality.

Binge drinkers and alcoholics do have euphoric recall as do addicts. Most of them continue to chase the high and remember only how could it is and not all the negative consequences.

When I was working with groups of addicted folks one exercise we did was listing the + and - of drug use as a way to help them overcome the euphoric recall. Just talking about the high caused physical and emotional cravings and our hope was to trigger this response then help trigger the negatives like jail, homelessness, loss of children, illness -HIV, Hep C, etc and help them feel the negative consequences to the the the use of drugs --something nonaddicted folks can readily see. We found that it was an exercise that needed repeating over and over again for months on end to help eradicate the euphoric thought process and to teach them the skills to use the process when they were no longer in treatment.

Hmm probably more than anyone wanted to know.

Drinking alone is a sign of an alcoholic.

Drinking with friends or socially is having a good time.

Wheres my beer ! ?

Maybe this is also why some alcoholics I've know would rather drink alone or with strangers, there's no one to remind them of what they said or did.

Maybe I'm an exception, I can vividly remember throwing my small intestine up after a serious tequila/sambuca session.

In some ways it was also a good memory, as it was definitely the night I learnt when I couldn't drink anymore shots and had to turn back to beer.

:D

Forthright marketing campaigns in countries such as Denmark, Britain and Germany (where binge drinking is at it's strength) don't help as they directly associate booze with 'good times'. For some it seems an escapism route from the boredom of a lifestyle that could be bland, empty or unfullfilling - I think these factors contribute the emotion-laden images prior to drinking as he/she is looking forward to getting inebriated.

Erm, why do I only ever remember all the inappropriate things I've said or embarrassing things I've done then?

I think this goes for a lot of negative things that we endure. I think our brains are wired to remember all the bad, painful bits of life very clearly. We'd all be so depressed and afraid to do anything!

Good study: It's obvious when you hear it, but I can't actually recall the feeling of feeling horribly ill off alcohol, but the good bits do stick out.