• aslaii@lemmy.world
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    I don’t ever drink, not even one cup. I just don’t like it. I need to think better excuses than just saying plain “no”.

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      I’m dieting. I’m on some medication. Ah, just don’t like the taste. Got drunk one time and had a bad experience. I’m driving later. Someone I knew was an alcoholic. No thanks, ate something earlier and it’ll taste weird. But it’s not a shameful thing to just say no.

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        I am not opposed to drinking, but the prices for drinks at bars, restaurants and especially concerts are usually so high that I can’t justify the expense. So I usually volunteer to be the designated driver. If you tell people you’re the designated driver, no one will pressure you to drink, and you will probably get free soft drinks all night.

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        I dont drink. I used to be an alcoholic and drink 12 drinks a day minimum. I don’t drink is a perfectly fine answer too.

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      Seriously, I don’t get how anyone can drink that shit and enjoy it? Any time I’ve tried it just feels I’m swallowing a mouthful of acid. To each their own I guess, but to me I don’t know if I could stomach enough of it to ever get drunk

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        I used to also feel this way, but people would tell me it’s an acquired taste. That sounded like bullshit to me but turned out to be true.

        That being said, not drinking shouldn’t be something to have to explain or be ashamed about.

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        I’m an alcoholic. I hate the taste of alcohol. I think it’s kinda funny you say it tastes like acid. There’s a lot of acids that I enjoy the taste of. Tomatoes, vinegar, oranges.

        Alcohol tastes bad. It’s your body correctly identifying poison. It’s bad for you. The only reason I drink so much is that everything else is so much worse. It’s basically a legal and deadly antianxiety.

        I’ll never understand how or why people drink it casually. Unless you’re drinking to get drunk I cannot fathom why you’d want to drink it.

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          The only reason I drink so much is that everything else is so much worse.

          What do you mean? Alcohol is one of the harder and more addictive drugs you can do. Standard anti-deppressants aren’t nearly as bad and neither are many illicit substances like cannabis and ecstasy. There are a few that are worse (heroin, crack cocaine, maybe benzodiazepines) but I don’t think people would reach for these just to treat for anxiety.

          Edit: Even Ketamine is only roughly as bad and dangerous as alcohol while being much better at treating things like depression and anxiety. It’s regularly used now to treat these disorders in treatment resistant patients. A course of treatment can last up to one month after the last dose. It’s can also be effective within one hour of the first dose.

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              Hey bud, just letting you know that life in general gets a lot easier when alcohol isn’t poisoning your mind and body. I got stuck real bad for, sheesh, 7 years because I would feel crappy, drink to feel less crappy, then feel even more crappy the next day, repeat.

              Recently I had breakfast with my partner, and brought up that it had really been a problem lately, and they took it to heart and have been keeping me accountable. After about a week I had a six pack and some liquor on Saturday as usual and Sunday just felt like a total waste of a day, I felt awful. I think you lose that perspective over time of how much better being sober is when you have been daily drinking for so long.

              Of course I won’t pretend I have everything figured out and it has been hard not having that method of self-education, but what really kicked my butt into gear was talking about it to somebody I cared about, and getting that first week of sobriety for perspective of how much better I could be feeling. I wish you the best, I know it’s not easy.

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          Even “bitch drinks” like mikes hards are still almost unbearable for me and taste like absolute shut. I’ve tried tons of things, from light to hard, and 100% of them are god awful

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          Speak for yourself, I love the taste and hate the effect, I wish it didn’t have it

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    I cannot drink anymore due to a medical condition. Tbh I don’t think I really started having fun until I stopped

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    If your personality needs drugs (alcohol) to make it beareable, you were never a fun person to begin with.

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      This was a big reason I quit. I would spend the next day exhausted and irritable. Occasionally I get the urge again but I just remind myself how crappy I’ll feel tomorrow.

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    Fuck alcoholic drinks, and fuck those friends that force you to drink it, true friends respect your decisions not peer pressured you to drink that bullshit liquid

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    I used to really enjoy drinking, but had to stop for an auto immune treatment. Then the treatment stopped and… I never really went back. I’ll have the occasional beer or whiskey because I do really enjoy them, but it hits different now. When I drink, I usually will just get something really nice, enjoy it for longer than I should and leave it at that. Weed, on the other hand…

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    Whenever I meet people that don’t drink I praise them. It’s great to see people that get this point.

    I started to drink around 25 and haven’t before because of religion. I do now occasionally drink a beer or a drink but I’m careful to not drink to much and only when I want to enjoy myself.

    People pressuring you into drinking is not friends. It’s just childish. Find new friends if so!