I’m more so curious what it is about alcohol’s effects that make it far more likely for a person to hurt the ones they love. I speculate that it has something to do with impulse control, but I can’t be sure.
Thanks in advance.
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I’m sure there are lots of reasons but some thoughts are that alcohol inhibits REM sleep and sleep patterns in general, meaning that even though a person might not be awake for 8 hours that’s not the same as getting 8 hours of sleep. If that goes on night after night month after month. The person can be mentally exhausted this can lead to a really short temper so that they can fly off the handel at the smallest provocation. Crazy part is if they come off the booze their sleep pattern will get worse and be even more irritable.
People who drink to get black out drunk also tend to be carrying trauma of some kind and this can come out as rage due to their feeling of impotence or perhaps lack of agency in their lives.
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