When I blackout from drink I forget who/where I am

Good Afternoon, Tom.

Make your New Year really HAPPY ! Give up alcohol.

You are a young man... do you want A LIFE ? I think we all do.

Don't let booze rule you.

I wish you well.

I have stopped drinking, today... again. I am 61.

I feel ill.

Alonangel 🎇

That's an effect that alcohol has for some people that drink, especially for bingers. It's thought that the volume of alcohol consumed causes a type of steroid to be released in the brain, affecting certain types of memory cells in the hippocampus.

This would be a good time to get control of the drinking, Tom. There's a way of using a certain medication, it's called The Sinclair Method (TSM). Now, if you can just cut off drinking or use willpower to moderate and stop yourself from overdrinking, so much the better. This generally isn't how it goes for binge drinkers, as alcohol also numbs the faculties that lend to that type of control, so they usually continue drinking to the memory blackout state. TSM can help you reduce or eliminate your drinking, as it works on a part of the brain that holds alcohol in high regard. That part of the brain is literally what "drives you to drink". 

https://patient.info/health/sinclair-method-for-alcohol-use-disorder

This is what I used on my daily drinking addiction and it worked quite well for me. I'd suggest you check it out and keep it in mind as a "Plan B" if using willpower to manage your alcohol consumption doesn't do the trick.

You have Alcohol Use Disorder, Tom. Have a look at the link that ADEfree gave you. Using that method now will save you a LOT of hardship in the future. Get it resolved now before you suffer massive losses in your life like many of the people here have.

 In conjunction with what ADE has said about binge drinkers, this is fairly typical.

Particularly in young people (students) , who are often not daily drinkers, but go out on a bender, consume huge quantities, that overwhelm the brain and effectively cause it to shut down. Young people have not built up the tolerance of that of older people, coupled with a necessity to neck it, is a recipe for disaster.

The general forgetfulness comes from long term drinkers. Alcohol washes out the vitamins from our body and then drinkers often don't eat well, getting all of their calories from alcohol, which doubles up the problem. It is very important not to forgo food when drinking.

Too early for dementia. Alcohol doesn't actually cause dementia. It can bring on conditions that have symptoms similar to it and it can also increase the chances of getting it, as well as alcohol brain atrophy. Eating well or (if you won't eat well) taking thiamine should protect you from most of this. People who develpo any of this, can usually see a reversal if they manange to abstain for long enough and return to a healthy lifestyle, much like giving up smoking.

So, for the short term problems, slow your drinking down, keep off the shorts if you can't hande them. Don't build up long term problems by nipping it in the bud, before the drinkng becomes habit forming and is much more difficult to return to a safe level.