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Roxy5
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Roxy5 asked in Social SciencePsychology · 1 decade ago

Do you ever feel like you missed your chance to be young and irresponsible?

What did it for you?

I'm diagnosed bipolar and medicated, so I have to avoid all the fun stuff like alcohol and staying up all night. Granted, I don't always, but I can tell the difference and it's frustrating.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I am sure that you will get to enjoy yourself without that sort of lifestyle.

    I wasn't one to stay up late in my teens and twenties as I had a steady boyfriend from 16 years and married him. Yet we are far ahead of other people in many ways.

    And I meet people from my old school who used to stay out and get drunk and they don't want to know the others they used to hang out with like that. They regret their younger days.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't mean to be rude but that attitude is very immature so I assume you are very young.

    Where is the fun in getting drunk, vomiting on your friends clothes, embarrassing yourself and your friends, falling and hurting yourself, arguing with those you love, having no recollection the next morning of the "fun" you had the night before, possible getting pregnant and not even remembering the way it happened?

    I am sorry but I have seen so many kids ruin their lives with alcohol and drugs and have been the victim of one of those people who never grew up and became an alcoholic.

    I have never used alcohol and no I am not a wowser, just don't need a prop when I am out having fun to help me relax. My friends all know I don't drink and as I am a little "crazy" or "zany", I am usually the one who gets people laughing and some of them drink and some don't. I matters not to me, they are my friends but the sober ones carry on longer, the drunk ones fall asleep, go to the toilet to be sick or collapse, unable to keep up with us sober ones. We have a ball. You don't need drink to have FUN.

    As for staying up all night, sleep half the day away, change your pattern so you are rested for the night and the odd night now and then of staying up shouldn't be of concern as long as you don't mix alcohol with your meds.

    Go ahead, have fun. There's nothing wrong with that but if you need booze as a crutch to cover something eg nervousness, shyness etc, that is a personality problem, not a lack of alcohol problem

    Good Luck Hon, hope you start to enjoy your young adulthood in a mature and happy fashion.

  • 1 decade ago

    That stuff is highly overrated. I admit that there were a few actual fun times but on average many do it because they think that it is "real living" however, guys like to get girls drunk, alcohol turns people into fighters, deaths happen from stupidity etc. I became a teen alcoholic and spiraled into despair. I was lucky that I was not killed a few times. I lost a girl I loved and hurt her deeply. After I became a Christian I learned that there were better ways to enjoy people and have fun without hurting the ones you love. It only seems that you are missing out because you haven't experienced it. To me I feel you are lucky to miss out on some things.

  • 1 decade ago

    You must avoid alcohol, it is the major cause of chemically induced psychosis, it alters the chemical balance of the brain.

    I was one of those that always wanted responsibility, and was very frustrated by not being allow it until a few grey hairs started to show. To this day I wish I had better prepared myself for adulthood. I would not have wasted so much time addicted to alcohol and drugs. Sincerely

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sure I did...got married right out of high school, had to work rather than attend college, had my first child three years later and had all that responsibility...and my husband turned out to be an abusive, self-centered jerk, who helped with nothing, and barely spent any time with his own child...much less me.

    So I went from the strict home where I was born into all that, and missed out on everything all the other people my age were doing. The marriage lasted 4 more years until I was finally able to get out of it...but I wound up on anti-anxiety medication and antidepressants.

  • 1 decade ago

    No. Nothing. Just got me a few more problems than I bargained for in life is all. You can still live a good, happy, carefree life without alcohol, and staying up all night. There are plenty of fun things to do in life.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    it particularly is so weird and wonderful, notably much all of the questions I see on human beings lacking their exes are from adult males! I wish my ex felt like that! I went through a smash up a pair of week in the past and this is particularly no longer elementary so i comprehend the form you experience. despite in case you have a shot of having returned at the same time so i think you could draw close directly to that wish if that's what you pick - i comprehend mine is unquestionably over. i do no longer comprehend precisely what to advise - i think of staying faraway from her could desire to help, you will no longer see her chatting with different adult males. additionally she is messing you around slightly, do you opt to be in this dating? pass through all of the soreness the subsequent time she ends it?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    of course not. i do what i want when i want. right or wrong, it don't matter to me.

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