How do you feel ?

Spent my sunday father's day noon having brunch @ raffles with my relatives . Can't remember the restaurant's name STM again ): I've been suffering from severe STM these days and I think it is the lack of rest or my brain is getting smaller in size , brain damage hah.

So anyway wuz so damn shagged after brunch but I hate taking naps in the evening cause I won't be able to sleep in the night and will feel even more shagged after. so I decided to google about the harmful effects/results of drinking and my research led me to even more knowledge about alcohol ! Some of which I think I'm already suffering but I won't say it here :D

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Here are some things I suggest you should need to know ^_^

ALCOHOL’S DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN-- LIKE DUH everyone should know

Drinking causes difficulty in walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, impaired memory: Clearly, alcohol affects the brain. Some of these are detectable after only one or two drinks and quickly resolve when drinking stops.

Alcohol can produce detectable impairments in memory after only a few drinks and, as the amount of alcohol increases, so does the degree of impairment. Large quantities of alcohol, especially when consumed quickly and on an empty stomach, can produce a blackout, or an interval of time for which the intoxicated person cannot recall key details of events, or even entire events.


BLACKOUTS AND MEMORY LAPSES

Blackouts are much more common among social drinkers regardless of age or whether the drinker is clinically dependent on alcohol.

Women are more vulnerable than men to many of the medical consequences of alcohol use. For example, alcoholic women develop cirrhosis , alcohol–induced damage of the heart muscle (i.e., cardiomyopathy) , and nerve damage (i.e., peripheral neuropathy) after fewer years of heavy drinking than do alcoholic men.

Male and female alcoholics both showed significantly greater brain shrinkage than control subjects. Studies also showed that both men and women have similar learning and memory problems as a result of heavy drinking .

BRAIN DAMAGE AND OTHER RESULTS OF DRINKING

People who have been drinking large amounts of alcohol for long periods of time run the risk of developing serious and persistent changes in the brain. Damage may be a result of the direct effects of alcohol on the brain or may result indirectly, from a poor general health status or from severe liver disease.

Most people realize that heavy, long–term drinking can damage the liver, the organ chiefly responsible for breaking down alcohol into harmless byproducts and clearing it from the body. But people may not be aware that prolonged liver dysfunction, such as liver cirrhosis resulting from excessive alcohol consumption, can harm the brain, leading to a serious and potentially fatal brain disorder known as hepatic encephalopathy.

Hepatic encephalopathy can cause changes in sleep patterns, mood, and personality; psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression; severe cognitive effects such as shortened attention span; and problems with coordination such as a flapping or shaking of the hands (called asterixis). In the most serious cases, patients may slip into a coma (i.e., hepatic coma), which can be fatal.

And i strongly suggest teens should not start drinking at a young age as our brains are still developing . You won't want to jeopardise your thinking skills right ? Not only that , drinking causes beer belly and fats in other areas like the arms and it is hard to get rid of it . If you want to start drinking , you better think twice.