Excessive Alcohol Abuse Could Regress Your Mental Age
why and how so for your opinion?
Thanks for your answers!
talking about the way you think and behave.
night after night of drinking.
talking about from a 30 year old to a 10 year old mental age nearly.
why so for this , if you agree?
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As a recovered alcoholic I'm well qualified to answer your question (not the sort of qualification I would have wanted).
When I was twenty in 1962 I was still in Grammar School and as a matter of interest I took the MENSA IQ test and scored 145.
A year later I joined the RAF and although I had started drinking at the age of fifteen, this is when I started drinking in earnest.
Over the next next say forty years my mental age certainly regressed, but only when I was actually under the influence of drink, if I went a couple of days without (which was rare) I think it returned to normal.
My wife died in 2004 from liver failure brought on by alcoholism and this is when my own alcoholism really took a turn for the worse, from then on my mental age really regressed on a continual basis until I went into rehab at the end of 2006, I joined AA and have been 100% teetotal since.
I received my two year sobriety badge at last night's meeting.
Not only has my liver returned to normal, but a couple of months ago I re-took the MENSA test and I'm pleased to say I'm back in the top 2% in the country.
Not all alcoholics are as lucky, my wife wasn't, so don't take it for granted.
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