Teetotalism

I find myself annoyingly pessimistic towards things I would enjoy if I haven't had a drink.


For example, my mates ask me to go out with them, until I've had a beer or so I'm usually ''nah'' or ''I'll go but not looking forward to it'', after a drink or 2 I'm optimistic but usually I'm pessimistic despite me not really remembering doing something and later regretting it, I mean I have no reason to be pessimistic in the first place. Basically, I need a drink often to agree to something I'd enjoy.

Same with new years eve, I drank every 2 days on the first week of my holiday, in the second week I said I'll take a break for a week and didn't drink until new years eve, I was grumpy and annoyed all day and arguing about rubbish with my parents and refused to go out and do anything, a couple of glasses of champagne at home from midnight and my mood changed completely, went out (albeit late) and had a nice time.

Alcohol changes me from being a grumpy arse to happy and outgoing on the first glass usually.
 
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I have maybe a pint a month.

I enjoy myself less when i drink. I can't relax, I don't feel like i have control. I have a lot of female friends and when I'm out with them I just feel kinda responsible.. lik eif something was to go wrong, I want to know that they're safe or whatever. If i'm drunk, I cant ensure that the problem will be solved.

Dunno. Kind lame i guess.
 
I'm packing it in this year, at least for a while.

I like drinking way too much, once I start I'll just keep going. I am capable of having just a few but to be honest it's normally regulated by how long I'm out - once I've started that's usually it until I come home.

I'm too unpredictable when I'm drunk. Sometimes I'm just chatty, little bit loud, sometimes I'm a ****ing awful obnoxious lout, sometimes I'm aggressive (not often, but I don't like it). I've made some massive mistakes when drunk and caused some huge and regrettable dramas.

I've just decided it's time to stop. I've stopped for a couple of months more than once (after one or other of the huge dramas or when I've got aggressive when drunk) and to be honest, I've not missed out on anything while I've been stopped. I've still been to dingy rock clubs and danced horribly, I still shove kebabs down my neck on the way home, I still wake up with a headache... It's just that the headache lasts an hour instead of a day and a half and I don't feel guilty.

It's not the same for everyone obviously, but I think with who I am, maybe it's just best that I don't drink. Sometimes I feel like every time I go out and get drunk I'm right on the edge of being a bad drunk. Often I'm not, but often I am, and I hate it. I go too far way too often. I'm that guy that's drunk all the time.

Part of it I think is that I'm very honest with myself so where a lot of people will go out and be a **** over and over and not realise/not care, I do realise I do it and I do care. Part of it's just that I'm an obnoxious unpredictable drunk!

I drink at home as well, out of boredom and habit, and I can be exactly the same. I'll have one, then another, then another, then by 1am, I'm half drunk. Pointless, expensive, and it can't be doing me any good. So part of it's for the sake of my wallet and my health, and I've got more responsibility coming up this year so mid-week hangovers have got to go. It's pathetic anyway.

So I'm stopping, at least for a few months. I might go back to having a few and see if I can behave myself, but I think I'm getting a bit older and I've reached the point where I won't miss it much. We'll see.
 
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I haven't drank for years, for various reasons;

1) Everything I've tried tastes crap (beer/spirits/wine) it always leaves a horrible taste in my mouth
2) I suffer with acid reflux and alcohol sets it off
3) It made me feel tired and dizzy, 2 things which I have enough of suffering with labyrinthitis, so I don't want to make the symptoms worse.

Yes I'm a recluse, but thats not through not drinking, when I did drink before I still hated going out, I hate crowds, loud noise, all I can think about is getting home.

I have other enjoyments, mainly PC/Console gaming, photography, watching movies.

But at least I fit your stereotypical "no drink, no life" view, but thats only your opinion
 
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I go through periods of a bottle of vodka a day, like in the summer. I couldnt imagine teetotalism, sounds worse than stalinism!
 
Some nights I go out and don't drink, some nights I go out and have a couple. I can honestly say I have as much fun either way. I think I've got enough of a personality not to require it to loosen up - I do just genuinely enjoy having a drink sometimes, I don't really drink to get drunk.
 
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I have been asked to leave a place for not buying alcohol even though I had been buying softdrinks.
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That's shocking. Properly shocking.


At uni and for a while after I was a heavyish drinker - and then a few experiences (bad ones - but with lucky escapes thankfully) sobered me up to how open I was leaving myself to being taken advantage of.

So, for a while I was mostly a pub-drinker with occasional nights out which would leave the next day knocked out with a hangover.

Then I started dancing - and my social life shifted from the pub to the dance floor - where one drink (or maybe two spaced out over an evening) is all you need - plus a lot of water! Any more alcohol, and I become a crap dancer and enjoy it a lot less.

So now I drink a couple at a time - happily - but I've lost the taste for drunkenness.

At a recent party, one girl was a bit vomity, and the bathroom smelt of it afterwards. That was it, I couldn't drink another drop. Similarly if I see a very drunk person looking like a fool - it puts me right off.

About once every 18 months I seem to forget - and have a solid drinking night - and suffer for it! Sometimes, it's worth it. Mostly, it reminds me why it isn't.


Edit to add:
New Year's Eve this year was at a nice posh bar/lounge in town, where we did a dance display and generally took over one end of the place for a swing dance. While there were non-dancers in there drinking too - it wasn't a very drunken affair and the atmosphere was lovely and lively.

Walking home (up Park St for locals) at 3am was a different story - I saw what the rest of town had been up to. Good God.
 
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I've never been a great drinker, to the extent that now I would describe myself as near tee-total, I wouldn't say that I was fully, as I don't mind the odd drink here and there, but most of the time, if I go out, I'll have soft drinks, and I am more than capable of having as good a time as anyone else, the biggest difference, is that it costs me less, and in the morning, I can still remember who made a fool of themselves the night before.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do any strange and unusual chemicals. For the most part, I drink coffee, I enjoy going out to places that allow you to talk with people near you, without having to shout to be heard, or the constant "WHAT?" of many pubs/clubs.

And you know what, never really rated clubs that highly anyway, they're glorified cattle markets to be honest. Much rather, a group of friends, coffee/snacks/films etc, and a good laugh.

Don't need alcohol for that..
 
The thing is, I drink because I like the taste. Yesterday I was skiing and after drinking a liter of ice cold water to hydrate I got a ho wine and loved it for the taste and warming experience. Last night I ate an entrecote sur ardoise and the accompanying claret set the meat off perfectly. If i didn't drink the wine with the meal then my pleasure in eating the the tender beef would be greatly diminished, regardless of alcohol. The day before the gamay was an absolute requirement to the fondue - not only in developing the full taste but in being able to properly digest such quantities of cheese - anything apart from wine (and some strong spirits) would certainly lead you to stomach cramps.


I love the taste of a good Belgium beer, and will lovingly sip on a Chimay bleu. The same goes for all good beers, wines, spirits and so forth. Will never touch cheap lager or such tripe.

If all of these drinks were available with an identical taste without alcohol then I would buy them and drink them with utter joy, except you can't and the alcohol is a required product. Which brings me to my 2nd point, I quite enjoy the effect of a little alcohol on the system. I can always have fun without alcohol, but I can quite often have even more fun by drinking a little. Even if that is just a single good beer.
 
I think I'm going to spoof that I'm giving up drink because I'm so determined to get into better shape with my diet. ;)

If my 'disco-muscle' mates can't understand that, I've no chance. :D
 
I drink when I go out because I enjoy it and generally enjoy an evening out less if i'm not drinking for some reason (that's not to say I don't enjoy myself, I just enjoy it more when I have a few drinks). I'll drink at home sometimes just because the odd cold bottle is nice.

I have the ability to control my alcohol intake though, so i've never really felt a need to avoid it entirely.
 
This is one of the things I'm not enjoying so much about Uni at the moment. It literally seems that everyone wants to drink as much as possible and just dance to loud music. When at home I'm more of the person who enjoys a couple of drinks and a conversation/laugh with my mates, preferably in a quieter pub. I personally find it quite boring and awkward being in a club.
 
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