Sobbing after whisky?

[CrotchBurn]

Anyone else get wildly overly emotional with spirits?

Came home from work and had a glass of a whisky my dad gave me. Cue actual sobbing and horrible feelings. I know life isn't easy right now, but still...

This also happens to me with gin. Anyone else?

Why does this happen with spirits whereas with wine or beer you can get much drunker but nowhere near as OTT?!

I am banned from Vodka, DP, Friends and family will never allow me to drink vodka. I am usually a calm person. When drunk I laugh, I dance, I am fun. 1 vodka even mixed in a cocktail I become vile. I am angry, I shout, growl and say some pretty awful things.

I am immune to gin, but whisky makes me a sobbing, gibbering, snotty wreck.
Very cool and stylish I am not!

Spirits are the devil's work. I can't touch them. At 48, I'm teetotal because I just can't tolerate booze. I never really could, is the truth. But at 40, I began to really own this and stopped drinking apart from the occasional glass, like 'once a year' glass. I don't even do that now, I've gotten so used to not drinking. I'd spent my 20s drinking and starting fights in empty rooms.

Gin makes me want to clean, doesn't make me emotional but after one I'm itching to get the hoover out. Husband can't tolerate vodka makes him an idiot.

@GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy

Alcohol is alcohol is alcohol. You know that right? It can’t affect you differently in a whisky to a beer. Completely wrong.

Disagree. Alcohol is alcohol and drinking 6 units of whisky will have the same physical effect as drinking 6 units of wine in the same time frame.

The difference in effect is emotionally, culturally, or past experiences that you associate the drink with.

If op, for example, associates wine with celebration and fun nights out with friends it will give a different emotional response than if she associates whisky with maybe toasting someone lost, or sitting back relaxing and contemplating life.

**Disagree. Alcohol is alcohol and drinking 6 units of whisky will have the same physical effect as drinking 6 units of wine in the same time frame.

The difference in effect is emotionally, culturally, or past experiences that you associate the drink with.

If op, for example, associates wine with celebration and fun nights out with friends it will give a different emotional response than if she associates whisky with maybe toasting someone lost, or sitting back relaxing and contemplating life.*

You've actually agreed with the person you're arguing with

Alcohol is alcohol is alcohol. You know that right? It can’t affect you differently in a whisky to a beer

Not at all true, either scientifically or practically. It can. of course.

Yes it does imoact you differently, and it’s not based on previous experiences of it either. It’s clearly the age, brewing, distilling and what else is in it, impacting on folks.

Lots of people find themselves feeling aggressive on whisky, lots feel relaxed on red wine, but not invigorated, lots feel depressed on gin. Different alcohols impact us differently.

Of course mood, how much you’ve eaten, how much you’ve drunk, how quickly you’ve drunk, the social setting also will impact. But there is defintely an underlying difference.

If the op had had a vodka, or a glass of red wine, there is every chance she’d not have been feeling the same way.

I've heard gin makes people weepy but it never does that to me. I've also heard people married to alcoholics say spirits are when they 'turn' from happy drunk to mean drunk.

Plain gin makes me desperately sad, whereas flavoured gin doesn’t.

Chilean red makes me want to lie on the floor and die.

I am not allowed to drink Jack Daniels.

Yes, I do enjoy a drink.

Not at all true, either scientifically or practically. It can. of course.

Where are you finding the scientific proof? The only things I can find about it say there's no scientific reason for the difference.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403295/

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/does-tequila-make-us-crazy/309058/

I think alcohol lets the monkey brain. My monkey loves Cider. Alcohol is not my friend.

sorry, meant to say 'lets the monkey brain out' and I haven't even had a drink

Haha red wine for me. Nothing else does it.

@skirtingbore

**Disagree. Alcohol is alcohol and drinking 6 units of whisky will have the same physical effect as drinking 6 units of wine in the same time frame.

The difference in effect is emotionally, culturally, or past experiences that you associate the drink with.

If op, for example, associates wine with celebration and fun nights out with friends it will give a different emotional response than if she associates whisky with maybe toasting someone lost, or sitting back relaxing and contemplating life.*

You've actually agreed with the person you're arguing with

I was disagreeing with the poster who said completely wrong

I call it the whisky blues - dark spirits turn me in to an emotional, gibbering wreck. Clear spirits and I'm the life of the party!

@Bluntness100 not sure why you felt the need to be so rude but I do find it’s often he people who are incorrect who are the most aggressive. So anyway, I did take your advice to ‘Google if you struggle to understand’ and what I found was pages and pages of articles and research confirming that ethanol doesn’t affect people emotionally dependent on the form it’s in. Here’s an article explaining if you ‘struggle to understand’.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/effects-different-types-alcohol-2016-2%3famp

Also for some other posters White wine is just made from white grapes, and Red wine from black grapes. Then fermented the same way. So unless you find that when you eat black grapes it affects you in an emotionally differently to white grapes then there’s no difference. Rose wine is often just a mix of the two.

It’s all psychological

I'm fine on most drinks but I'm an absolute cunt on vodka

I don’t get it with gin or whisky. Red wine will do it if I’m already feeling gloomy.