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Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com)
A new study published in the journal BMJ Open says different types of alcoholic drinks change and shape your mood in different ways. For example, spirits may make you feel angry, sexy or tearful, while red wine or beer may make you feel relaxed. The researchers questioned nearly 30,000 people aged 18-34 from 21 different countries for the study. BBC reports: The anonymous online survey, which recruited respondents via newspaper and magazine adverts and social media, found:
-Red wine appeared to make people more lethargic than white wine
-Respondents were most likely to report feeling relaxed when drinking red wine or beer
-More than 40% said drinking spirits made them feel sexy
-Over half said drinking spirits also gave them energy and confidence
-But around a third said they felt aggressive when drinking spirits
-Drinking spirits was more likely than all other drink types to be associated with feelings of aggression, illness, restlessness and tearfulness
-Men were significantly more likely than women to associate feelings of aggression with all types of alcohol, particularly heavier drinkers
Prof Bellis from Public Health Wales NHS Trust said the setting in which the alcohol was consumed was an important factor that the study tried to take into consideration by asking about drinking at home and outside of the home. He said the way different drinks are marketed and promoted might encourage people to select certain drinks to suit different moods, but that this could backfire if it triggered negative emotions. He also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.
-Red wine appeared to make people more lethargic than white wine
-Respondents were most likely to report feeling relaxed when drinking red wine or beer
-More than 40% said drinking spirits made them feel sexy
-Over half said drinking spirits also gave them energy and confidence
-But around a third said they felt aggressive when drinking spirits
-Drinking spirits was more likely than all other drink types to be associated with feelings of aggression, illness, restlessness and tearfulness
-Men were significantly more likely than women to associate feelings of aggression with all types of alcohol, particularly heavier drinkers
Prof Bellis from Public Health Wales NHS Trust said the setting in which the alcohol was consumed was an important factor that the study tried to take into consideration by asking about drinking at home and outside of the home. He said the way different drinks are marketed and promoted might encourage people to select certain drinks to suit different moods, but that this could backfire if it triggered negative emotions. He also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.
I would call these "alcoholic beverages" and not "different types of alcohol".
If I remember my high school chemistry, an "alcohol" is any molecule that ends in "OH" and the only type that doesn't kill a person is "ethanol" and is the active ingredient found in beer, wine, scotch, etc.
Regardless of the mood beverages derived from ethanol makes a person, the result of a person ingesting any of the other forms of alcohol is death. So, don't drink methanol to see what the difference in the high is to something like brandy.
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-Drinking spirits was more likely than all other drink types to be associated with feelings of aggression, illness, restlessness and tearfulness
Previous science told us it's not the type of alcohol that gives you a worse hangover or has worse affects, but the amount - and almost solely the amount (exactly how close to 100% I don't see that it was ever concluded). But any feeling of difference due to type is only perceived. Eg
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888958/
Here's an article more repeating what I've heard a million times (including a bartender class):
https://io9.gizmodo.com/do-different-kinds-of-alcohol-get-you-different-kinds-o-482710477
So, if TFA is simply repeating people's answer to a survey, then it doesn't disprove the previous line of thinking, and is actually misleading imo.
People build up tolerance to alcohol over time and can end up drinking more to feel the same "positive" effects that they enjoy.
Again, another thing I thought was against previous studies. You feel the same effects, but "tolerance" is achieved simply because you are used to feeling these affects, and can attempt to act more normal since you expect them and make an effort to do so.
Yes, exactly this. I tend to be a whimsical person -- I am always the class clown, in any setting (for perspective, let it be noted that I am in my mid-50s but I still act like I'm 12). About a hundred years ago I was at a party for some friends who were to be married the next day, and they had margaritas flowing endlessly. I asked later what I was like, since I didn't remember a bit of it. My friends assured me "You were just like you, only much more so."
In other words, I expect alcohol to give me a happy buzz so that's what it does for me. Red wine, scotch, vodka, girlie cocktails, margaritas, whatever -- I go about with this big grin on my face and say things that (in my inebriated mind) are hilarious.
Only slightly related anecdote: The closest I ever came to death by alcohol poisoning was at a dorm party (big surprise, right?) circa 1982. I knew from the start that I'd never remember the weird things going on, so I came up with the brilliant plan of taking notes of anything interesting that crossed my mind. Only... I didn't have anything to write with, or write on. I have a vague recollection of searching the dorm floor, until I found a discarded pencil and grabbed some paper towels from the bathroom. Then whenever anything caught my attention, I wrote it down on my ad hoc diary. I wasn't able to read my notes for several days, because I spent the night throwing up in my bed (kids, take note -- this CAN kill you) and nursing the mother of all hangovers. When I finally got around to looking at my wadded-up paper towel full of notes... it was complete gibberish. Between the poor medium to begin with and my already-sloppy handwriting and the booze giving me an even worse scrawl, the words ran all over the page in random directions, incomplete sentences, and smudges. All I could make out was some mention of an SCTV skit that was a parody of M*A*S*H and to this day I have no idea if that was real at all or I just imagined it.
Nowadays I generally limit myself to a glass or two or six of red wine before bed, to help me sleep. Unless my wife is driving. Or it's a full moon. Or a new moon. Or a partial moon. Or a day ending in "y".