Is it normal/true the truth comes out when you’re drinking?

Is it normal or true that when someone is drinking or drunk that what they feel normally comes out more so when drinking?

No truth doesn’t come out 2
Depends on person 17
Other (comment) 5
Yes truth comes out 12
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Comments ( 18 )
  • Skarmatic

    Drinking can bring out the truth yes, but I think it also skews what you think as well. Like you may think something and say it, but it could be way more dramatized than it is when you're sober.

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  • Nikclaire

    It might but you need to wade thru a bunch of bullshit to get to it.

    Drunkenness is more like a bad dream state where anything that pops into your head is spewed out, usually multiple times ad nauseum.

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  • cupcake_wants

    I have admitted stuff I wouldn't have admitted otherwise while drinking.

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  • McBean

    Ditto. My ENFP goddess of physical love had the same BPD disorder. At the 18th month mark, she started playing head games. I left after a couple of days because I knew I had to protect my mind, but it was another two years before I was ready to get back into the game. Whew, that kind of babe steals your soul and you can't even feel it.

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  • dimwitted

    I don't think alcohol is a truth serum.

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  • cipro

    Alcohol lowers one's inhibitions so there is a chance that they could admit to something they are hiding, but it is not a guarantee of anything. I'm sure there are lots who can lie even when under the influence of alcohol(myself included).

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  • No!

    Yes it can make you say things that you withheld, but it can also make you say things which aren't true.

    It lowers inhibition.

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  • McBean

    Know something? ENFP women are good in the sack; spellbinding actually. I know the chemistry of which you speak. After a year and a half, things start falling apart during the daytime, though. The girlfriend I always felt the most harmony with (but not the most excitement) was an ISTJ. Finally, she dumped me. Fuck, what a disappointment.

    *still working on my exoplanet panspermia response for you.

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  • McBean

    Actually, INTJs outnumber every other personality type at IIN. See the results to the following post.

    https://www.isitnormal.com/post/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type--106237

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  • Abnormal_Someone

    Also my step dad. He gets very distructed but he also let things go than when he is sober

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  • Abnormal_Someone

    Yes. When my mom drinks, that’s when she start getting emotional and talk about her shit in the past. Like I get it but she does it over and over again

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  • Boojum

    Like cipro says, alcohol lowers inhibitions. It's not for nothing that the Romans had the adage 'In vino veritas'.

    There are certainly people who are capable of lying when drunk - just take a look around in any bar where guys are trying to pick up women. But I do think your true character comes to the surface when you're under the influence. Some people turn into rage-filled maniacs, others become blubbering emotional wrecks and so on.

    I just fall asleep. Since I'm fundamentally a lazy bastard, that's a pretty accurate reflection of my true character.

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    • McBean

      Well said, my friend. As a fellow INTJ, I can assure you my fundamental boredom with the world surfaces after the second drink. The inanity of happy talk becomes painfully more obvious. Sleep is the best alternative. I'll get motivated after coffee next morning.

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      • Nikclaire

        Meyers Briggs is worse than horoscopes sorry bean.

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  • Clunk42

    What's the point of drinking, anyway?

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    • Nikclaire

      "Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks—drinks which they see others taking with impunity."

      Alcoholics Anonymous. --more about alcoholism.

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  • Lestat565

    I’m an asshole when I’m drunk to anyone that’s around. Not that I’m not an asshole when I’m sober I’m just worse if drunk.

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  • LloydAsher

    When I drink I can choose what to tell people. I use that myth of the truth serum to sow lies into the truth.

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