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.
There are a lot of people like me who are deeply envious of people who somehow just drifted away from alcohol.
I stopped after a last hangover and 20 years of heavy drinking.
I decided to, so I read the book “this naked mind” as I was told it is a good start and it seems to have worked on me. It’s only been a bit more than a month now, but I don’t feel like drinking and I don’t even think about it so that’s cool.
Good luck on this journey.
Work in progress over here myself 🙋
It’s really simple to stop…its not easy for a lot of us but very simple… hope you do what ya need to do friend