The reason for these uninhibited utterances is the way alcohol affects the brain. Along with causing lowered inhibitions and motor control loss, alcohol can impair an individual's evaluative cognitive control.
Alcohol dampens hearing
We're still not entirely sure as to what is going on, but it seems to involve a feedback loop. Once you have a few drinks, your sense of hearing is impaired. So when you speak, you mistakenly think that you are talking more softly than usual.
How alcohol affects your brain. As anyone who has ever had an alcoholic drink will know, alcohol can make you more chatty, more confident, and less coherent. It slows your mental and physical reactions and reduces your ability to think, reason and remember.
Depending on the person, intoxication can make someone very friendly and talkative or very aggressive and angry. Reaction times are slowed dramatically — which is why people are told not to drink and drive. People who are intoxicated may think they're moving properly when they're not.
This may seem paradoxical, because we know that alcohol can lead to slurred speech. But it seems that in small doses, alcohol doesn't impair our speech or cognition enough to have a significant negative effect—however it does lower our inhibitions enough that we are able to relax and communicate more easily.
Myth 2: Alcohol makes it easier for people to socialise. Truth: Alcohol in small quantities can make people feel more relaxed and sociable. However, alcohol is a “downer”. Drinking too much alcohol can make people want to withdraw from others.
Because we're feeling less self-conscious, we might act more impulsively when it comes to intimacy—sharing personal things, being more forward, and doing other things that aren't normally as easy to do. All around, we're less cautious.
Popular wisdom holds that our true desires and feelings tend to come to light while we're drunk. Although drinking alcohol can definitely lower your inhibitions, there's no evidence to suggest that alcohol necessarily unlocks any deep-seated feelings or desires. Still, alcohol can change who we are, in some ways.
While alcohol may appear as a short-term solution to restlessness and anxiety often associated with ADHD, heavy consumption can intensify symptoms of ADHD and render some ADHD medications ineffective.
They know what they're doing -- alcohol just makes them care less about the consequences. Via Healthzone: A new study says that people who commit blunders while under the influence of alcohol know they're doing it; they just don't care.
Alcohol is a depressant. It slows down processes in your brain and central nervous system, and can initially make you feel less inhibited. In the short-term, you might feel more relaxed - but these effects wear off quickly. In fact, if you're experiencing anxiety, drinking alcohol could be making things worse.
Alcohol makes it harder for the brain areas controlling balance, memory, speech, and judgment to do their jobs, resulting in a higher likelihood of injuries and other negative outcomes. Long-term heavy drinking causes alterations in the neurons, such as reductions in their size.
Scientists believe we behave like this when drunk because we misinterpret social situations and lose our sense of empathy. In essence, once we start slurring words and stumbling, our ability to understand or share the emotions of others goes out the door, too.
Often, people experience a temporary rise in confidence while they're drinking. The effects of alcohol may make their anxiety and fears temporarily go away. Alcohol also lowers your inhibition, the feeling that holds you back from acting on your impulses.
Key aspects of the reward system are underactive in ADHD brains, making it difficult to derive reward from ordinary activities. These dopamine-deficient brains experience a surge of motivation after a high-stimulation behavior triggers a release of dopamine.
The short answer: yes. Alcohol can make your ADHD worse. Those with ADHD are more likely to develop a problem with alcohol than someone who doesn't have ADHD. The bottom line: they're not a good combination.
One study looked at the drunk dialing behaviors of college students and why they engaged in this behavior. They found that people drunk dialed for 5 primary reasons: Entertainment (to entertain themselves or someone else) Social lubricant (person felt more confident and less accountable for their actions)
Affectionate drunks are people who become very touchy-feely after they've had some drinks. This is another manifestation of lowered inhibitions. Alcohol can make us more emotional and less encumbered by perceived (or real) personal boundaries.
There are a few reasons people get more flirtatious when drunk. For one thing, alcohol does tend to lower the drinker's inhibitions. In other words, when a person is drunk, they don't have much of a filter! In this case, it might mean someone is flirting with someone they wouldn't have the nerve to ...
And when it comes to consuming copious amounts of alcohol, this feeling of relaxation is heightened, along with the fact that we become much less in control of our emotions. This combination can often result in you confiding too much in people and a lot of touchy-feely behaviour.
In most cases, drunk kisses don't mean anything because alcohol lowers your inhibitions and makes you do things you wouldn't typically do. In some cases, however, drunk kisses can mean everything.
That's not to say that introverts don't become lonely sometimes, and desire interaction. During such times, alcohol offers effects such as the lowering of social inhibitions, and numbing of harsh outside stimuli. All of this can make it more enticing, as a way to make reaching out to others easier.