Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

[LostSoul33]

Hi all,

I am wondering how many of you actually lost the good high while drinking alcohol.
Id like to look further into this and thought MWO would be a good start. I know for myself, the euphoric, happy feeling when buzzed/drunk was what I loved most about drinking. But as the years went on, and I drank more often and more of it, I lost that temporary elated feeling and turned into a unpleasant, angry drunk. I assume it has something to do with the fact that, like any drug, I was abusing AL and the highs were no longer the same, but even when I would slow down and take breaks, one drink made me go down that dark path.
Curious to know if others experienced the same awful feelings while drinking-- if you feel you just lost the fun high once and for all.
Ever since I have become sober, I pay close attention to the drinkers around me, they seem to be in a drunken "bliss"... a lot of them drink very heavily and quite often. I know they suffer hangovers but what is the difference between "us" and them?
I am so happy to live a life without AL and will never look back, not for a split second-- just very interested in what changes in some of us and not others.

[Samstone]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

I did not lose the buzz feeling but sometimes it would take a lot more to get there and once there it really didn't matter how much more I had. What I could do though is pace myself to keep going, especially when playing music, guess the intent was not totally focused on drinking. My anger would depend on who I was around... usually anger towards my family members who saw me as a drunk and they were right. Thanks for posting this topic, makes me reflect on what I've done and what I don't want to do any more.

Sam

[lizker]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

I know what you mean. I don't get the euphoric feeling like i used to. Started 2 years ago. I guess the brain runs out of dopamine. I stupidly allowed myself back into the pity after almost 6 months of sobriety. The buzz came back mildly. Not worth any of the horrors of this poison.

[paulywogg]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

it depends,if im in a bad mood when i start it may make the mood worse or flip it over and make me happy,but like sam says it takes more and more over time to get where i want to be,i wish that i didnt like getting drunk,it would make all of this so much easier,however i dont like hangovers,puking,or any of the other nonsense anymore,and im pretty sure i wouldnt enjoy dying from alcohol very much

[broken halo]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

I think just before my last binge. I wasn't enjoying it, and getting no buzz from it. All I did was worry about whether or not I had enough that I would fall asleep (or pass out as molly rightly says) Thinking back on it, I wonder if that triggered my final binge which was a doozy. Was I trying t find that elusive buzz, that glow? What a joke. What a fool AL made of me.

[NoSugar]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

Hi, LS

I enjoyed the first drink every day until the last on a physical level because I was always hungry (deliberate low blood sugar) and so the first drink was such a relief.

I think I still liked the pleasant calmness that 2 or 3 drinks brought throughout, also, but the number needed grew and whatever benefit I felt was more than overshadowed by the fact that I did not stop at that "pleasant" point and had all of the guilt, remorse, sadness, and general ill health to bear. Not only was I not really enjoying alcohol for the last year or so, I wasn't enjoying my life.

So I finally quit.

:h NS

[RunningCourage]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

I always enjoyed alcohol.
And i always got a high - even when it became nightly drinking on me tod.
I just knew that it was a tad sad drinking so much on me tod.
And doing me liver and body generally no good.
But i never stopped enjoying the drink.

[K9Lover]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

During my last few binges I went from sober to drunk without the buzz or happy feeling in between. I didn't enjoy my drinks, I just pounded them down because I felt like I had to. Drinking for me stopped being fun a LONG time ago (long before I quit drinking). Realizing that helps me to avoid the cravings, because what am I really craving? It's not FUN anymore!!

[Wine-no!]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

K9Lover;1542862 wrote: During my last few binges I went from sober to drunk without the buzz or happy feeling in between. I didn't enjoy my drinks, I just pounded them down because I felt like I had to. Drinking for me stopped being fun a LONG time ago (long before I quit drinking). Realizing that helps me to avoid the cravings, because what am I really craving? It's not FUN anymore!!

Ditto!
I realised this 100% during my final attempt at modding.. It just wasn't doing it for me any more. I either got tired or angry.. No buzz...

[damo180]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

The fun has well and truly stopped for me . I need to get to the "3 pint" buzz as quickly as possible , and would easily dring 3x 500ml cans in 15 to 20 mins if i was alone. Also started isolating myself and preferred drinking alone . Back on track now and hopefully I can keep going.

[daisy45]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

Drank this last few nights, but not as much as usual. My sister was in yesterday, drinking and talking crap. Yes, I was with her, but thanks to here, I know better and got so bored I went to bed while she sat in my house. Tonight, again, drinking and with each drink, thinking, what am I doing? Getting nothing from it whatsoever!
So, after drinking almost nightly since Easter, does this mean tonight is the night I have had enough? I sure hope so............

[Miley]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

This is a great thread and it has really made me think. If I am being honest with myself, drinking really stopped being fun for me, probably over a year ago.....when I had to sneak so it looked like I was drinking a 'normal' amount. I really noticed it wasn't fun anymore when I would get upset while I was drinking that I was drinking.....talk about a buzz kill! I started paying attention to this while I was on vacation after doing 30 days AF and the decided to drink while I was on vacation because for some reason I felt like it was what I was supposed to do (because I've always done it) I didn't enjoy it at all...I was doing a dance that I didn't want to do anymore.

[K9Lover]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

After running around and buying a 12 pack and some cigarettes, getting home and changing into my pajamas, starting a movie, getting all settled, then going outside for a beer and a smoke I sat there thinking "THIS IS IT??". It seemed like I had planned all day for something that wasn't all that great. It was a let down. I think towards the end that the thought of drinking was more fun than the actual drinking.

[moni]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

K9Lover;1543293 wrote: After running around and buying a 12 pack and some cigarettes, getting home and changing into my pajamas, starting a movie, getting all settled, then going outside for a beer and a smoke I sat there thinking "THIS IS IT??". It seemed like I had planned all day for something that wasn't all that great. It was a let down. I think towards the end that the thought of drinking was more fun than the actual drinking.

So true. I can't believe how much of my time was consumed with planning my evening which then consisted of nothing other than sitting on my own pouring from a bottle into a glass and smoking cigarette after cigarette.

I stopped enjoying it a lot sooner than I thought. I was struggling for a while, there's no doubt and it sure wasn't my friend. Final straw for me was waking up in Intensive Care with my next of kin sitting next to me because the hospital didn't think I'd pull through. It's a very sobering thought now I can tell you. Sometimes it takes such extremities for somebody to change.

[K9Lover]

Curious to Know When Did You Stop Enjoying Alcohol?

Wow Moni, that is awful. Was it alcohol poisoning or an accident that landed you in ICU? There were a few times that I probably should have been checked out after falling and landing HARD on my head. But of course the drunk me didn't want to bother with going to the hospital! I'm just lucky I woke up after those incidents.