I stopped drinking alcohol some years ago. Before that I hardly consumed any alcohol at all for many years, but in my college years and maybe some years after that, I drank socially like “everybody else”. But I gradually kind of got tired of dealing with the bad feelings (physical and emotional), so I drank less and less.
And maybe because I drank less and less, even one beer often just made me feel kind of bad, so then I just stopped altogether. Anyway, I’m curious if this has happened to anyone else? And how do you go by it socially? What do you order at a bar? Maybe I’m a little afraid to go to places that has an “alcohol culture”, even if there are some places I would like to go. I don’t want to drink, but at the same time I don’t want to appear weird about it either.
This happened to me. I stopped enjoying the way alcohol made me feel and alcohol consumption is not generally a good idea when mixed with mental health medications. So I think my alcohol consumption went down steadily until I didn’t drink anymore. I really enjoy non-alcoholic beers. There are some excellent craft ones that have sprung up in recent years.
Me too! I was drinking 0% beer while writing this post. Some are really good. And now that I haven’t drank in years, I actually often double check the label if the beer really is 0%. It’s weird.
Most of the NAs contain a very tiny amount of alcohol, statistically negligible. I think it’s something like 0.001% or some thing like that. Anyways, I digress - the NAs do taste like the real thing. The one thing I notice however is that you have to drink them faster once opened because they tend to go bad quickly.