Fear of alcohol???

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i've got drunk plenty of times but it's only in my 30s that i've started getting a taste for it. Which actually makes me drink less, i used to drink to get drunk when i'd go out when i was younger, now i have a taste for it i just like to sip it and enjoy it.

Old ale type beers are among my favorites.

Erm, thinking back to my experience of being new to drinking though. I remember it was at my first job, i got dragged out with them at christmas and i guess that was my main introduction to alcohol, i was like 17. I didn't know what to drink though and someone recommended something called smirnoff mule and that was basically what i latched onto while i worked out other things i liked.

Alcohols an acquired taste( or it was for me) so it's no surprise that you don't immediately like it.... avoid it if you want but you'll enjoy your experiences around drunk people more if you're one of them.

Some family histories prove that drinking may not be a good idea. Something to think about maybe... The point where booze becomes bad is when you go overboard. People blacking out, throwing up, hurting their family, kicking the dog, and so on are the abusers who are doing it wrong. However if you do decide to drink, perhaps a craft beer will be nice. Most people drink awful beer, usually cheap, or over advertized, while craft beers for the most part are something delicious, to be drank instead of chugged, enjoyed instead of just to drink, and for a buzz instead of getting drunk. You might enjoy girly/cheap sugary. wines, limoncello, snaps, cider, and martinis. These generally are very full of sweet flavors.

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If anything, its a good thing you don't have the taste for alcohol. The society of our generation might fool you into thinking alcohol is a good thing. As a depressant, it really isn't. There is also the theory that it makes your more social. It does for some in a sense by lowering their inhibitions, but really, you are just slowing down your brain down temporarily therefore lowering everything else as well. Congrats for not falling into the trap.

There is nothing wrong with being sober. Growing up, I did not even like anything the was carbonated (fizzy), and had no desire to even try beer (even when I was old enough to do so legally). Plus I don't like the idea of something that could impair my thinking, and the brief "feel good" periods are not worth the risks of passing out and waking up somewhere, hangovers, liver damage, DUI, etc. Yes, I know that those don't happen when drinking in moderation, but I still don't like the idea of something that will alter my way of thinking.

I am actually the odd-ball in the family, as I have ancestors and relatives who are or were in the beer/wine industry, and everyone else drinks.

i started drinking around 21 and enjoyed it and got drunk a few times had fun but i now of age 28 decided to stop drinking because i feel like it's overrated. it makes me feel slow, makes my mind not clear, and makes me feel crappy. i also don't want to become an alcoholic because my mom and my sister both are and their lives are a complete mess no joke. i honestly i think alcohole should be what's illegal not hemp. hemp is more healthy, doesn't damage your body and it's kind of good for your brain and outlook in life when you use it in moderation and the right times.

I have a healthy fear of alcohol and for good reason. I took my first drink of alcohol when I was 15 years old. It was an instant love affair. I had found something that I thought was a magical potion and a solution for anything and everything. Within a year of that I had people my own age and much much older telling me I had a "drinking" problem. I laughed at their concern and thinking to myself "I don't have a problem at all ingesting the alcohol, this is my potion". Eventually the alcohol led to other substances like pot, abusing my prescription Ritalin and insane amounts of OTC cough medicine.
It wasn't until recently that it caught up with me and the court system had to step in and intervene. Since age 18, I have bounced in and out of counselors offices, rehabs and mental hospitals. The drugs were in the foreground causing problems but alcohol was always involved in the background. Now I have almost 6 months clean and sober and literally have a fear of taking a drink. The minute I get that first drink in me, a little switch goes off in my head where reasoning and logic go out the window. Fear of alcohol is present in me because within hours or so of taking that first drink I would be throwing myself headfirst in to the fire of addiction and that can be likened to living a nightmare!

I also have problems with alcohol, my father was an angry drunk...well angry period but more so when drunk.
I get uncomfortable around people just because they're drinking.

Whats worse though are the looks you get from people when you say you don't drink.
It's like they are so perplexed and insulted that you would refuse a drink.
You'd think they'd just offered a starving man a slightly less then appetizing meal and he'd refused by their reaction.
Every single time I'm forced into family get togethers like Christmas and thanksgiving everyone offers me one,
like I haven't been refusing them for the last 7 years and they're always just as surprised.

I want to get over it because I know its not so much that I hate alcohol then it is childhood issues.
But so many barriers to it, least of which being that the cheap stuff smells and tastes like I'd rather piss in a cup and drink that.

I hate the smell of alcohol! >.<