Alcoholic Binge Drinking
By the time I was ( 19 ) nineteen and finally off to college at the University of Vermont. I was a Binge Drinker. I drank daily and I drank as an Alcoholic. I drank in Binge Fasion. I drank until I passed out. I wonder how I made it through those days. I went off to College Orientation and a friend of mine and I bought a keg of beer and a bottle of Tequila and put it in my dorm room. This was the first day on Campus and I was going to invite the entire floor to drink late into the night in my room. Well, the party went on. Plenty of the other students on the floor joined in, but I also remember thinking, why is not the entire floor here drinking. Answer: because everyone on the floor was not an Alcoholic, a couple of beers was all they needed. The other students did not have to drink a keg of beer and do shots of Tequila to feel normal, to feel like they fit in. So this was my behavior the first day at College. Completely outrageous! Now what makes this little Binge Drinking story even more crazy is; the following morning I woke up on a hallway floor, yes a hallway floor. Not the floor that my dorm room was in, not even the same building. I had no idea what building I was in. I was still drunk, and it was 7 am, I walked through hallways looking for a doorway to get out of this dorm building ... but I could not find an open door for what seemed like a half-hour. Finally I found an open doorway, and went outside, next mission find my building. I could barely remember what it looked like, all the buildings looked the same. After staggering around for another 20 minutes, I found my dorm building, found my dorm room , and went to my room and passed out again. That was my first day at the University of Vermont. | Alcoholism, Alcoholic, Alcoholic Problems, Alcoholic Drinking, AA, Recovering Alcoholic, Binge Drinking, Alcoholic Help, Alcoholic Symptoms, Alcoholism. |
That is my memory of my first night at College. I was off to a great start, that was for sure. Later that day after sobering up enough to function, I went to register for my first -Freshman semester classes. I managed to register for my classes, and now that this task was completed, I could do what I came to College to do, drink. And so I spent the rest of the day drinking away my hang-over and waiting for another night of party hopping to begin. I hooked up with my drinking buddy and the night fell, and the drinking was on again for a second strait night. But I was not going to let it get so out-of-control this night. I wanted to be able to find my way back to my room at 2 am when I was done drinking.
Binge Drinking at College
I spent the first week at College drunk. Just going from party to party. Finding all the local bars that were cool to drink in, you know the ones with cheap "booze" and lots of beer, the kind of bar that would serve you as long as you could stand. The first few days at College turned into the first week at College. Just getting drunk and thinking this was "GREAT!" Soon the first week at College turned into the first month. I tried to make it to some classes, but my drinking got in the way. By Mid-October, I had missed most of my class time, and had no idea what the homework assignments were, I just knew where to buy beer and "booze" cheap and what bars had specials on what nights. Around the end of my second month on Campus I just gave up. I was drinking full-time and I knew I was going to Flunk all my classes. So I drank and I drank, and ended up taking incompletes. Needless to say the University was not pleased with my behavior. But they were stragely sympathetic to my problems too. I was dropped out of school. I was living in a small apartment, waiting tables, to earn some rent money. The University was going to give me another chance in the next year. I found a girlfriend I loved and I spent most of my time with her. She helped me keep my drinking under control. I loved her and I did not want to lose her and when I was with her I did not feel the need to drink like an Alcoholic completely out-of-control. I drank, but it was a six pack, or a few drinks, not the binge drinking that I had dome the year before. So I made it to classes, got some grades and life went on pretty good for a while. I had hit a level place. My Alcoholism was in check, at least for now.
Thomas Gillis in recovery for 27 years, developer of AlcoholicShare.org. Please visit our on Facebook page : AlcoholicShare.org
Binge drinking can be dangerous on many different levels, especially for young binge drinkers, possibly affecting their health, brain and emotional well-being.
Binge drinking can increase risks for heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders. It can affect your ability to plan, pay attention, make decisions, process emotions and control impulses. It also increases your risk of accident, injury and becoming the victim of violence.
When many people hear the term "binge" associated with drinking, they think of someone drinking continually for several days without eating and getting very little sleep. That's not binge drinking, that's "going on a bender."
Binge drinking is having five or more drinks (four for females) during a single drinking session. That's it. That level of drinking is considered binge drinking and considered an increase risk for all the dangers found listed below.
Binge drinking is drinking a six pack. It's drinking one bottle of wine.
-Credit to Buddy T - About.com
Note: this is not the type of Binge Drinking I am referring to in my commentary, my binge drinking was this x 10.
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