I miss beer

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For the most part I have gotten used to sobriety, but damn do I sometimes miss beer, more so than any other alcohol. I try not to look over when I walk past the beer aisle at the grocery store, but the store where I do most of my shopping has lately had a Blue Moon display near the main aisle; Blue Moon was one of my favorites. It crushes me that I cannot have it. :disappointed:

I’m nine days away from the one-year mark, and I am absolutely not going to break my sobriety, but I wish like hell I wasn’t an alcoholic and could just enjoy the occasional beer the way so many people do. It’s all-or-nothing with me, though, I’m either completely sober or I’m all in. I won’t even touch so-called non-alcoholic beer considering it has 0.5% alcohol.

I just have to remind myself of how much better I feel now compared to where I was a year ago, when depression and anxiety were running rampant in me.

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that’s what i do too

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I’m almost at the 2 year mark. It feels like much longer, and it is still difficult.

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I quit for 2 and a half years once. But i was pretty sure i got alcohol poisoning

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I had quit for three years at one point, only to go back to drinking when my marriage fell apart in 2008. I hit the bottle hard at that time, and I have been struggling with it ever since.

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thts soo smart you don’t touch it even tho it’s .5
not even ab the taste
do you take any mds tht work on gaba? Benzo ?
Thse can worsen cravings

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If you’re on anti-psychotic meds I think drinking any kind of alcohol is taboo for it affects the medication.

So whether you’re an alchoholic or not you can’t drink alcohol or at least that’s not recommended.

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No benzos for me. I just take two APs, an antidepressant and a mood stabilizer.

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Oh, I know. Even without the APs I’m on I shouldn’t drink with my antidepressant. Probably bad with my mood stabilizer (actually a seizure med), too.

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All 5 of my meds say no alcohol, so that’s just an added reason for me to not drink.

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@freakonaleash

There are alcohol-free (0.00% alcohol) beers. Just do a search on the Internet (alcohol free).

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good.
if I it makes you feel any better,
I’m rly craving my self
Psychs, specifically

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I would be afraid that would give me a taste for it again. Good to know they’re out there, though, maybe someday.

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Naltrexone is a great med for alcohol cravings.

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I miss beer too but I wasn’t an alcoholic, but I know not to drink beer or any kind of alcohol with my meds. my dad’s an alcoholic and takes Seroquel, he has cut back but still drinks occasionally

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I don’t have insurance to get another med. I’ll be fine, just crave it sometimes, but usually I’m ok. I’ve been craving the taste of a good beer more so than the alcohol, anyway.

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Are you high man

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yea, man.
no lol not rly. Having dissociated episode after this:
Additive ``free tobacco bowls
They make me sick ):

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I guess I can’t sympathize that much. Alcohol tastes nasty to me. People have said that it tastes better when you are addicted but then why drink it in the first place.

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I’ve been sober going on 7 years, haven’t touched a drop. But I really crave a beer now and then also. Sounds kinda weird but I like the non alcoholic carbonated non sweetened drinks. Like the carbonated flavored water. They kinda reminds me of beer.

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