this is a touchy subject........if your having -problems- with remembering,then chances are you have a drinking -problem-
drinking problems are far from the stereo typical wino on the street corner ,in reality it only means that your having problems becouse of drinking .......your having problem
when you black out ,it's sorta like what mr 5.0 said......except you are alot closer to health problems and even -death-.....when your blood alcohal level reaches a certian point ,parts of your brain start shuting down,your memorie is the beginning stages of your brain being damaged and shuting down ........the later stages of this are alcohal poisoning and death .......please...take this seriosly and make some changes to your drinking habits .....if you don't you have a pretty good chance of waking up dead!!!....
i say this becouse it's a fact .....not just my opinion.....i've had friends die from alcohal and becouse they were drinking in a simular way to what you descibed.........i just attended a funaral a week ago ,he was an old friend that was making his way to mardi gras.........on the way he died..... lost one friend becouse he chocked on his vomit ,i lost another friend caus he passed out with a cigerette and was to out of it to wake up when he set his house on fire
i've done alot of drugs and alot of drinking in my life (and i mean alot),when i was around 23,24 y old i started seeing it causing problems i decided to cut back on it ,for the next couple of years i went on and off with drinking heavy and lightly..........my drinking was still causing problems.......the problems didn't stop till i quit -cold turkey- and got proffesional help........i didn't drink a drop for allmost a year and had to stop the drugs all together.......i'm definatly a better person for it........i still drink now and then but in moderation and not on a regular basis and i havent done any drugs in allmost three years.......every body's different and some have to stop for the rest of there live's ,in order to stop the problems ..........
for me i love drinking and partying but i know where it leads me.....stoping the direction i was going was definatly a good thing for me........i don't have to deal with hangovers,i have more money for stuff(mustang parts too).......and i don't wake up in jail near as much now
.........i'm pretty lucky that i made that decision.....i truly believe i'd be dead if i didn't .......every time i hear of a friend dying i realize how that i'm actually pretty lucky that i didn't die in my partying years
well i hope my experience will help you with your decicions......everybody's diferent so only you can decide what road you want to take ,my seggestion is if you can't cut back to only a few drinks a sitting ,then get some help from others who faced the same thing ........you can find an aa meeting in every town almost every night,(look in the phone book to find where and when)......if your wondering if you have a problem with drinking ,aa would be a good place to talk to some peaple that have had some problems and some experience with helping others answer that same question
james