The team at www.totiuss.com, a unique 360 wellness coaching programme and alcohol-free community designed specifically for women, surveyed 2,350 UK adults over the age of 18, to find out what they like the least about drinking alcohol.
It was initially found that nearly half (47%) of respondents don’t like who they become after drinking alcohol, and the following were the most common reasons why:
- Saying things they don’t mean – 86%
- Making bad choices – 73%
- Becoming argumentative – 64%
- Blacking out and forgetting things that happened – 62%
- Getting into fights – 29%
A best friend is the person that people are most likely to fall out with when under the influence (31%), followed by a spouse (28%) and relatives (21%).
When it came to the topics that people would say under the influence which they didn’t mean or had never thought of before, opinions of a person were the most commonly blurted out (53%), followed by opinions on a situation and how it was dealt with (29%).
Interestingly, just over one quarter of respondents (27%) admit they have argued so badly with friends or family members and haven’t spoken to them since, as the result of a booze fuelled argument, they have no recollection of.
The alcohol-free community have spoken to John Junior (they/them) who previously had a toxic relationship with alcohol whereby they would enjoy a drink on a weekend, but end up taking it way too far and consume a huge amount of alcohol in one night. This ended up being almost a weekly occurrence for them and resulted in them developing aggressive behaviours when drunk and resulting in them damaging close relationships to them due to their drinking.
Carmela Coop-Rodia, Co-Founder of www.totiuss.com, commented:
“Alcohol affects each person differently. We’re all familiar with some people saying they’re a fun drunk, a sad drunk or an angry drunk, but it couldn’t be more true. Alcohol completely gets rid of any anxiety we might have been feeling and makes us much more confident, so a lot of us end up saying or doing things we wouldn’t usually say or do when sober. The phrase ‘a drunk mind speaks a sober heart’ is so very wrong. Many of us end up slipping up and saying things we don’t mean after we’ve had a few drinks, and it’s simply because we’re less aware of the consequences of our actions when we’re drunk; although we definitely do suffer the consequences the following day, in one way or another.”
