3. LPT: If someone tells you they don't drink alcohol, don't ask them why.

LPT: If someone tells you they don't drink alcohol, don't ask them why.

Same or similar - schizoaffective disorder. I take lamotrigine/lamictal and the doctors say not to drink on it, or just not take it at all that day if I know I'm going to drink. I choose to drink very, very rarely.

Also, I do notice I feel a lot more anxious the next day. It's not worth having some fun for feeling anxious and shitty the next day.

But it sucks, because people close to me will pressure me to have a drink in certain situations, and I want to but it's taking all my willpower to avoid it. You're making it fucking harder to avoid the liquor when I already have low self-control for shit like that and you're making me feel shitty by acting like you're not having a great time because I'm not partying with you. "Oh, just have a couple drinks. You'll be fine! You can do that." and "It's always because you drink too much, just have one beer!"

I end up fucking drinking too much because I'm basically giving up when I drink, or I start to have fun and I have low self-control when I'm already drinking. That second glass of wine gets me buzzing, and then I'm really ready for that martini. And I stop giving a shit, because I already made the choice to drink.

So yeah, it's way easier to just not drink, because if I have two beers, I'm inevitably going to have those whiskeys.

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