hennessy
26-01-2012, 12:49 PM
This is going to sound controversial but please bear with me, this is my opinion of the correlation between the rise of women getting spiked and a condition that affects me.
I suffer more and more from En Bloc Blackout, I'm 5"11 and 14 stones, broad chest and shoulder, not much fat and on any given night I can blackout on only a small amount of alcohol, lets say 6 cans of Stella.
Somedays I can drink all night but more and more it's getting less and less.
I can be drinking with friends, feeling tipsy and then in literally a blink of an eye I can find myself walking down the street miles away from where I was, feeling fresh as a daisy.
First thing I do is check my knuckles for blood and then my face for bruises, it's not a great feeling.
I have and never had any kind of memory of what happened, it never comes back to me.
I'm told I still carry on in conversations but I slur alot more and I can't keep memories for longer than 2 minutes but most of the time I say something stupid or do something stupid (poured a whole pint across a busy bar).
I didn't what was happening until two years ago when it got bad.
Women are more prone to this condition.
So
I saw a news item awhile ago on drink spiking where the women interviewed said it hadn't happen to them but they know someone who had, it seemed like an epidemic at the time. As a man it's bad enough being viewed as a potential rapist/mugger/paedo/sexist.
This got me thinking.
When I worked in an all male workplace (Builder's merchant in South London), on payday I was offered every sort of drug, guns, viagra, people who can 'sort things', dodgy credit cards but never rohypnol (no I wasn't looking) so I can't imagine that this drug is so easy to obtain. Now lets say someone does than I can't imagine it'd be cheap. Than you have to go to the club, spike someone and manage to carry them out unseen (friends/staff).
I'm sure there are men out there who do this but not as widespread as it's claimed and if it has happened to you, you have my sympathy.
So has this happened to you?
Do you have any stories?
Did you know about this condition?
(excuse my poor grammar)
Here's a wikilink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(alcohol-related_amnesia)
I suffer more and more from En Bloc Blackout, I'm 5"11 and 14 stones, broad chest and shoulder, not much fat and on any given night I can blackout on only a small amount of alcohol, lets say 6 cans of Stella.
Somedays I can drink all night but more and more it's getting less and less.
I can be drinking with friends, feeling tipsy and then in literally a blink of an eye I can find myself walking down the street miles away from where I was, feeling fresh as a daisy.
First thing I do is check my knuckles for blood and then my face for bruises, it's not a great feeling.
I have and never had any kind of memory of what happened, it never comes back to me.
I'm told I still carry on in conversations but I slur alot more and I can't keep memories for longer than 2 minutes but most of the time I say something stupid or do something stupid (poured a whole pint across a busy bar).
I didn't what was happening until two years ago when it got bad.
Women are more prone to this condition.
So
I saw a news item awhile ago on drink spiking where the women interviewed said it hadn't happen to them but they know someone who had, it seemed like an epidemic at the time. As a man it's bad enough being viewed as a potential rapist/mugger/paedo/sexist.
This got me thinking.
When I worked in an all male workplace (Builder's merchant in South London), on payday I was offered every sort of drug, guns, viagra, people who can 'sort things', dodgy credit cards but never rohypnol (no I wasn't looking) so I can't imagine that this drug is so easy to obtain. Now lets say someone does than I can't imagine it'd be cheap. Than you have to go to the club, spike someone and manage to carry them out unseen (friends/staff).
I'm sure there are men out there who do this but not as widespread as it's claimed and if it has happened to you, you have my sympathy.
So has this happened to you?
Do you have any stories?
Did you know about this condition?
(excuse my poor grammar)
Here's a wikilink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(alcohol-related_amnesia)