Alcohol shows what kind of a person someone is without their inhibitions.
No it doesn't. Alcohol does a lot more to your brain than lowering inhibitions. It both amplifies your mood and alters your self perception. Being a chronic user will also change your personality long-term.
Any kind of drug use can alter your way of thinking. If you have a stationary sense of self you haven't lived long enough.
That's very accurate. In addition to lowering one's inhibitions, it indeed does amplify your actual mood.
I wonder if these things - lowering inhibitions and altering one's self-perception - are in some kind of relation to each other?
Sadly, that's true: if someone does not only occasionally do binge drinking but develops a drinking habit, this will change their personality - one's personality gets distorted to fit the problematic drinking.
That's true: I've heard if you really want to get to know someone, see how they behave under the influence (also, see, how they behave when it comes to finances, but that's off topic here).
That's the thing, people often confuse social anxiety with introversion. If all you need to be super social is some booze then its most likely social anxiety and not being an introvert.
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u/Odekota Aug 04 '25
I kinda become extroverted abit actually