Very unusual drunken personality

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Drunk and stupid is a thing I've done dozens of times. I usually drink responsibly, I have friends hide my keys and phones (especially after some how drunk texting some guy in ancient hebrew), and for the most part I'm a cuddly happy drunk. However, as of a few nights ago, after a much smaller amount than usual drinking nights I completely blacked out. And by blacked out I mean about 2 hours into a night of drinking my brain shut off and some demon drove my meat suit around making a total ass of myself to everyone I know. Now to clarify, 99% of the times I've been drunk and disorderly there's been some bit of memory, control, remembering drinking, or at least a feeling or personality traits blown out of proportion. This was like someone literally turned a switch off in my brain. All of everything, completely black. Now I've blacked out before but it requires lethal amounts into the realms of alcohol poisoning. (It should be said here, I'm not a lightweight drunk. A bottle of whiskey is a calm tame night for me. This was like a quarter of a bottle at best.) But, that wasn't the case. As I said, I'm usually a responsible drunk. I was with about a dozen people. They said I passed out on the table and woke up someone else. Someone even called a poison control hotline thinking I had been drugged.

Now aside from my violent, punchy behavior that turned me into a total jackass. Once most of the people left, I apparently turned into a hyperactive child stunt devil, then once I was home, a gymnast, once I was in a bed, a chatterbox. If I didn't have people looking out for me I'd probably be dead or in jail for the list of s**t they told me I did.

So the current views are I was either drunk or drugged. The question in all this comes from this, I've drank before, I've been a stupid drunk before, I've even drank til I blacked out before. This.... this was a whole other ballgame of f* ckery. I've never done anything like this. In 20 years of nights out, bar fights, drunken shenanigans, one night stands, and I'll even throw in weird s**t like sleep walking and waking up standing in a corn field at 3am, this has never happened before. If I didn't have witnesses, I'd probably just have shrugged it off but I've NEVER had this kind of personality issue before. I assume the stories I might get from other people range from I had a burp once to we piled into the station wagon, hit the ramp doing 100 and thought we could make it to the moon but the barn got in the way. (not to make too much light of other people's experience just shortening answers) What I'm curious about is, has anyone had severe personality issues as a result of drinking or was I drugged? The reason I ask is that there was one person at that party that easily could be a culprit in all of this but I'm not one to go blaming people because it's convenient, or even obvious. I've not been drugged be..... I've not been drugged by SOMEONE ELSE before. Nor have I blacked out so quickly. Nor have I had such wild personalities swings. Nor have I taken physical actions against other people.

Edit - Come to think of it I have had one similar case a long time ago when I was put on an IV and put to sleep for surgery. When they removed my wisdom teeth they had to dope the every living st out of me. As in they switched the IV, used about 3 different formulas before they called in a specialist, and whatever he gave me knocked me the fk out. But I was a loopy assh* le for hours after that doing the most random st ever and walking around like it never affected my ability to walk/move. In other words, I tend not to do drugs, aside from RX issues and weed now and then. Drugs have always had odd effects on me. Either adverse in the sense of pain killers make me hyper as st or anesthetics not working at all (no really it's been a serious issue with dentists and surgeons). So the more I think about it the more I worry it was someone drugging me. I wasn't/haven't been on anything stronger than a prilosec for years. And definitely wasn't on the night in question. Granted it could all be paranoia but I've never had booze do that to me.

I can not stress how much that meat suit walking around wasn't me at the wheel.

Now the good part of all this is, yes, I've received "the talk" from about 15 people. I've had made about two dozens apologizes and there's at least one person who may never speak to me again. I've got people helping me with this.... oddly enough more people helping me with a drug/alcohol issue than help with any other issue... then again this was a public display for the most part so there's more.... concern when people see issues up close.

I'm rambling, what I'm leaving for question is, has anyone else ever had extreme personality switches despite a history of drinking but never being as unusual or wild from a calm night out? Have you ever had these extremes from drinking FAR less than you usually would?

I think I'm going to post this in the mental health section as well, to cover my bases, as I said I suspect foul play but it could just be my brain fracturing, maybe.

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    Hello Nester 😃 , I am guessing that you are late to mid 30's? I to had experiences like yours, and being spiked is a very possible cause to this particular evening, but at the same time it does not sound that much different to your usual antics. You have people around you trying to help either because they are long time friends that have known you for many years and you have a strong bond, or they feel sorry for you Or (and this is the most probable) they see it as their social duty to help someone who has a problem, and your it. With regards to the recent black out it sounds a little odd that someone would call the "Poison control Hotline" without an inkling that someone dropped something into your drink, is there someone in your party that would give away free drugs? Or someone that would want to take advantage of you when you were not in control? It sounds like you are a bit of a party animal anyway, and you write like you are a fun person to have about. You sound exactly like my best mate when I was a little Younger, but you have to ask yourself if it matters if you were spiked? You were going to get smashed anyway. In the great scheme of things your losing control of your faculties with either drink/drugs so it doesn't make a difference. Do you want the answer out of pure curiosity or do you want it as an excuse? With the amount you drink it is going to be impossible to safeguard yourself against people seeking a cheap thrill, so I would just suggest you soak it up, enjoy the free drugs as you were on the way to oblivion anyway, and just enjoy the wild ride on this seemingly fun (yet sadly depressing) ride on the short slippery slope. Or accept the help that is being offered. I hope you find the answers you're looking for 😉

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      Yes, early 30s. And yes there is someone that is shady that was there. One of those unwanted types that manages to show up and people have to insist every way possible they get lost before they ever get the point about not being wanted. So there's a suspect, yes. As far as having friends around to help, I think people are misunderstanding. This is a room full of other drunks at the same party. People I've drank with before, people who know what I'm like drunk, people who have spent years around me and know what to expect. Party animal no, enjoy a drink from time to time, yes. There's a large difference between getting drunk, knowing you're drunk, and you either keep drinking or call it a night. This was 2 drinks in and blacked out for 12 hours. This is a whole other ball game of no f***g clue what happened. It's one thing to drink all night and black out and that's normal to have 2 drinks and black out hard, then be st faced all night from it acting like you never have before. That's messed up.

      The answer I'm looking for is what the fk happened. I've got a lot of different answers on here but all of em seem to miss the fact that after years of drinking or learning how to handle my sauce, knowing what excess is, and being around friends i can trust being drunk around. Something went horribly fg wrong and no one seems to have a legit answer for it other than I apparently went out of my f**g mind WAY too early into the night.

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      How are you keeping Nester? Just wondering

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