Do you drink?

[SvennoJ]

crissindahouse said:

SvennoJ said:
Rarely nowadays, and only one drink for the taste as I don't like feeling anything close to a hangover the next day or after a few hours already. Those days are long gone.

I used to drink a lot with friends in my twenties. We used to finish a couple bottles of wine between us while watching a movie, or go out in the weekend to get wasted. I don't understand how you can get physically addicted to alcohol though. It seems I've tried enough but outside social drinking, getting drunk by myself has never been appealing in the slightest. I much rather got stoned and played video games instead.

Nowadays my 'vices' are coffee and peanut butter chocolate chip frozen yogurt. And lots of tea.

I think most who get addicted to it are those who drink to "forget" their problems and stuff like that. The brain seems to love this effect to let you get addicted to it. 

That's pshychological addiction though.

I've definitely abused alcohol in the past, but luckily never got dependent on it. Rather the opposite, hangovers won out over feeling good. Nowadays my brain is more worried about what comes after than the pleasure from getting drunk. One drink once in a while still tastes great anyway, yet when I start feeling any effects I rather not have a second drink.

I guess if you start drinking to forget you force your body to adapt to being in that state all the time and make it hard to go back. Alternating getting drunk or stoned apparently was the way to avoid addiction.