Drinking can be fun during the first few hours when the happy buzz kicks in. But things can get murky once you get past a certain threshold of inebriation.
This is usually when many people pass out or go on autopilot and do something they’ll regret the next day. The stories you’re about to read are more of the latter, where supposed merry intoxication turned unpleasant and embarrassing.
These short accounts are responses to a post by TikTok user dietcokegirl222. She asked for the worst thing people do while they are drunk. According to her, she did this to feel better about herself.
Read through this list and see if you’ve been in any of these sticky situations.
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Many see alcohol as a truth serum that helps them bring out their “real” selves. This isn’t the case, according to licensed therapist Jennifer Worley.
“The behaviors and emotions exhibited while intoxicated are just a part of a person’s broad spectrum of feelings and reactions,” she told Healthline. “They don’t necessarily represent their core character or values.”
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In terms of peeling back the layers of one’s personality, drunkenness is more of a revelation and characterization of what’s happening internally.
“While it is difficult to conclusively say that someone is more real when under the influence, it is safe to say that what you see is a more accurate portrayal of what is going on inside of that person,” family and marriage therapist Dr. Joel Touchet said.
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Alcohol abuse is known to affect one’s physical health in a myriad of ways. But as Worley revealed, it can also cause lasting behavioral and cognitive changes.
“Over time, these changes can contribute to personality shifts, especially if the brain damage is significant,” she explained. “Moreover, long-term alcohol misuse can exacerbate or lead to mental health disorders, which can further influence personality.”
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Some people become aggressive after a few glasses of their favorite whiskey. Worley explains that such reactions are likely due to alcohol’s effect on the prefrontal cortex, the brain region responsible for regulating thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
She also points out that alcohol can amplify existing feelings of anger, stress, and anxiety, which can make some drinkers act belligerently.
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Moderate consumption is encouraged among those who enjoy the occasional drink. The National Library of Medicine defines it as a maximum of one beverage per day for women and a cap of two drinks for men.
In terms of measurements, one drink is equivalent to one bottle of beer, a glass of wine, or a shot of liquor.
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Tried to go upside down on stripper pole and fell on my head and blacked out in front of 100 people (two nights ago)
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Handed a bouncer a Barnes & noble gift card instead of my ID and then tried to fight him when he didn’t let me in
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Called two of my exes and they both showed up
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drank out of a dogs bowl because I was barfing so bad IN SOMEONES LIVING ROOM and all I wanted was water
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Got black out drunk, woke up in some random guys dorm room after having thrown up on his Christmas tree, he'd been sitting watching me sleep, and proceeded to show me his coin collection
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Started on a girl in front of everyone for stealing my jacket and wearing it (we had the same one I didn’t bring mine out)
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at my sisters engagement party i got drunk and wanted to show my mom my chaturanga (yoga push up) and i slammed my chin into the floor and flashed everyone
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Messaged my boss saying how much I love the company and asked if I could be invited to future board meetings
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yelled and banged on the wall of my apartment because i thought my neighbors were vacuuming at 2am but it was indeed just the a/c unit blowing air through my vent
However, some experts would argue that there is no such thing as moderate drinking. They believe that alcohol in itself is detrimental to one’s health, regardless of the amount.
“It doesn’t matter how much you drink – the risk to the drinker’s health starts from the first drop of any alcoholic beverage,” said Dr. Carina Ferreira-Borges, Regional Advisor for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs of the World Health Organization in Europe.
“The only thing that we can say for sure is that the more you drink, the more harmful it is – or, in other words, the less you drink, the safer it is.”
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Punched a parking garage wall bc I convinced myself I was the hulk. Broke my hand
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Called my therapist 22 times and left her 8 voicemails because she has the same name as the friend that I had went out with and I did not know it was her
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Woke up in the middle of my local lake with a homeless guy and scuba gear on with no memory of why or how I got there
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cartwheeled through Lidl, almost got us kicked out. then another time lay down on the ground in the rain at 2am and had to be carried home by some very nice drunk girls
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got to slizzered at my friends wedding (which I was a bridesmaid in) and tried to start a mosh pit during the reception dance portion….at a wedding
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tried to explain synesthesia to the guy i liked and he said i reminded him of his schizophrenic uncle who stalked him
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Jogged 3 miles home through Washington DC at 2am using the Washington monument as my reference because my phone died
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Screamed across the bar at a 50 yr old man calling him an outfit repeater bc I had seen him the weekend before in the same outfit
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Drunk called my exes parents that I met only a few times over the phone
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Walked into my ex’s apartment… uninvited
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i chased my ex SITUATIONSHIP down the road w a knife 😞 (this is what i heard i literally do not remember a THING)
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Told a guy I didn't even like that I loved him
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ubered myself to my ex’s house without permission and he came home from work and i was just in his bed
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Got on my knees to hug a lil person and talked to them like they were one of my kindergarten students
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Tried to hide from a cop under a couch that was not high enough to crawl under (so the couch was just on top of my body and hanging off the floor)
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I went to a party where I was planning on seeing and spending time with the boy I liked at the time and when we was talking at this party he made me laugh so hard I peed EVERYWHERE
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Balled my eyes out in front of the guy I was out with about another guy
There has been research about the potential benefits of drinking, such as a lowered risk of heart failure. But for experts like Columbia University professor Katherine Keyes, it’s more about establishing a healthy relationship with alcohol.
“It’s not that ‘OK, you think you’re drinking too much, now you can’t drink at all’ — that health advice turns a lot of people off,” she told NBC News. “Thinking about drinking as a continuum, not a binary, is an approach that we think will be really useful for improving population health.”
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I yelled at my ex and his new girlfriend. I think about it everyday.
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asked my situationship “what are we” then quoted gotta go my own way from high school musical
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Disappeared, had a missing persons report filed on me, police and ambulance came, banged on my friends neighbors door at 3 am, and they thought I had hypothermia
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called every man i’ve ever even spoken to and then missed my flight home the next morning
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fell down the stairs and had to get emergency brain surgery
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I was mud wrestling at a frat house and broke my ankle and had to be carried out and was black out at the hospital w mud all over me
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Took a mates car, police caught me drunk, with no license, one broken foot in a cast and googling “how to drive” whilst doing 5mph down my road
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i ripped my friends sink straight off the wall
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was screaming at everyone who has my phone and then when I got in the taxi it was in my sock
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i convinced myself my uber driver was kidnapping my friends and me so i made them walk a mile home
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I created a work meeting and added a director from work to the meeting. Titled it BJ at lunch
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I was a police reported missing person for 8 hours when in reality I was asleep outside of my favorite pizza shop…needless to say my friends are terrible at hide and seek
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told someone I met ariana grande and that we got a selfie together, when they asked to see the picture i ran away as fast as possible
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ran head first into a glass wall that i thought was an open door (pantsless)
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I leaned out of a car to throw up and fell face-first onto the curb and broke off my front tooth
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Sent the entirety of the bee movie script to one of my ex situationships because I missed him
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Tripped over a guys foot and his prosthetic leg came off, I then grabbed it and tried to put it back on for him like I knew what I was doing
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locked myself in a bathroom drunk instagram DMd an old situationship telling him it was going to be us in the end and he responded saying “no it won’t be” and blocked me
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Got thrown out of a bar and then drunk peed in a guys bed :’)
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put a bunch of tampons in because for some reason i just kept forgetting i put one in
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Told my coworker that when he takes off his jacket at work I blush at how big his arms are
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drunk called my ex begging him to come over then when he came i cussed him out and made him take me to mcdonald’s
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Invited over a bunch of people that I met that night at a bar to my apartment and I blacked out and my PANDA dunks were stolen💔💔💔my brother got me them i still feel so bad
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called my ex not once but 37 times. spoiler alert he didn’t answer a single time
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I called the guy I was talking to my exs name the whole time and didn’t realize till the next morning
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promised my friends i was texting my sister and not my ex then snuck to the bathroom to call him. a girl answered, i ruined the whole party throwing up and crying all night
demanded a pizza shop should give me free pizza bc i worked at the ice cream store across the street