<p>what is wrong with drinking to escape reality?</p>
<p>if escaping reality makes one happy then why does society frown upon drinking as an escape? if i don’t hurt anyone and i keep chill to myself while i “escape” then whats so bad about that?</p>
<p>i couldn’t give you a complete answer, but i can tell from the way that you posited your question that you’re not going to get favorable responses on this message board :rolleyes:</p>
<p>i think if you exclusively use it to escape reality, it reduces your ability and motivation to actually do more productive/effective things to change what’s giving you problems in real life. i don’t have a problem with it (and in fact, i do socially), but when it gets to the point that you’re not doing anything about problems and just keep “escaping” them, then it is wrong. and that doesn’t just go with drinking…i believe any kind of “escape” without making an effort to change is a problem.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>Because you keep doing it and never stop. It only gets worse.</p>
<p>Drinking as an escape is basically the early onset of alcoholism.</p>
<p>Well, you’ll end up damaging your liver - if you are a heavy drinker - for one. Seriously, it’s bad for your health.</p>
<p>You can become addicted to it, dependant on it to feel good. You lose any focus you may have had.</p>
<p>Sure, for a while you’ll feel alright but there’s no permanent escape from one’s problems. You can run as fast as you like, they end up catching up with you. Don’t aggravate your situation.</p>
<p>It’s because you won’t be productive and you’ll be using up our oxygen. It’s probably because society doesn’t want you to be taking resources while doing nothing to contribute.</p>
<p>For you to really damage your liver, it’s usually like 30-35 years of hard, continuous heavy drinking, we’re talking at least a 6 pack or more 5 nights a week. Trust me, I’m in medical school. And yes, of course there are people who do that (usually it’s a lot more than a 6 pack though), but 4 years of hard partying in undergrad does not end up causing any real long term effects.</p>
<p>In general most college students fit in the category of “problem drinkers” when screening survey tools are used because those metrics are aimed at catching people in the general population (which undoubtedly has a different set of standards than college students).</p>
<p>And deluxehardballer is being overly dramatic and has no idea what s/he’s talking about. Alcoholism has little to do with why people drink and all about their physical dependence on alcohol which then transforms into an overriding psychological need for it at the expense of other aspects of their life.</p>
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<p>Slippery slope fallacy…</p>
<p>Drinking as an escape does imply that your reality is ugly and you’re trying to avoid it. I think drinking should compliment and enhance an already stable reality (ie everything’s great, let’s make it greater); this approach avoids dependence. It is a reward for sober success, not an escape from sober frustrations.</p>
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<p>If productiveness means progress in this case, then 95% of the people in the world are wasting oxygen and 75%+ are intellectually incapable of true progress; they’re just following orders from the progressive few.</p>
<p>You would think people here would do more than regurgitate the truth commercials.</p>
<p>I’ve always found it funny if I told someone I drank 6 cans of coke yesterday they would think I was dumb and think I was seriously damaging myself. If I tell the same person I drank 6 beers yesterday they’d think i just got drunk and that am now completely fine.</p>
<p>So which is really worse for you?</p>
<p>Well sometimes, you really can’t just go about and change reality. It just is. You won’t always be able to convince your boss to give you your job back, or your ex to love you again, or your dead relative to come back from the dead. It doesn’t work that way.
So, before you’ll be able to get over these things, drinking is an excellent way to spend the time.</p>
<p>“what is wrong with drinking to escape reality”</p>
<p>Evently you have to come back, so what’s the point? I mean if you could drink and it would move you to Los Cabos, fine. However, usually when you drink to escape you end up on the floor of some bathroom stall.</p>
<p>'cause it tastes bad and makes my stomach upset. What’s the point of making yourself feel sick no matter if you’re happy or if you’re sad?</p>
<p>I think it’s okay every now and then. Drinking helped me escape thinking about my boyfriend breaking up with me two days before Halloween and just let me enjoy the Halloween party I was at with friends. You can’t use alcohol to escape the pain of something forever, but it’s good if you just need something to forget for a few hours so you can relax and have a good time and not, you know, start crying in the middle of a crowd of people or something.</p>
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<p>“Ussually” implies 50%+. Please substantiate your claim.</p>
<p>It does take time to get over things, but I don’t think you should drink more than normal in hard times. Less even, so you can tackle the problems.</p>
<p>I think Tom Petty summed it up best:</p>
<p>“You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you’ll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don’t have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does…”</p>
<p>Um…bigredpremed check this out:</p>
<p><a href=“Alcohol use disorder - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic”>Alcohol use disorder - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic;
<p>Yeah, what the OP sounds like describes a symptom of alcoholism. </p>
<p>I really don’t understand why people feel the need to drink in order to experience college life. There’s so much more to college than getting wasted. Instead of wasting money on beer, do something productive with your life. Help little kids learn to read, donate money to save Darfur instead of spending money on alcohol, do something you’ve never done before. </p>
<p>I’m so annoyed with these threads about drinking. Stop trying to gain sympathy for your drinking habits because none of us care.</p>
<p>it kills brain cells that will never be replaced, and then you won’t be smart enough to solve your problems :)</p>
<p>^^^u know what u little smurfbittch, almost everyone drinks and 99.99% of them are not alcoholics…its something fun that most college students do…its does not mean that u are a waste…ur just upset because ur probably a ugly, fat biitch who knows wants to have a good time with, which is probably why u post on this site so much…so get a life and live a little…and BTW, no one wants sympathy from ur dumb ass anyway</p>
<p>and no MJ its does not kill ur brain cells, u dumb moron</p>
<p>You don’t have to have holes in your liver to be considered an alcoholic…</p>