Does alcohol now revolt you?
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Not revolted at this point. Just terrified. If I see a bottle of wine I have to run. I have a wedding next weekend and I'm already stressing about it. Maybe I'll be revolted by then, or maybe after I've seen everyone else drinking and how they act by the end of the night I'll be revolted.
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Originally Posted by sydneyman 
When my partner "a normie" has a drink I can smell the alcohol in the wine and it smells lethal and so chemically it revolts me. I have no problem being around drinkers etc. Just weird how I have gone from one extreme the other. Perhaps in my active addiction I was just on auto pilot drinking. I do remember how at times I almost had to force drink wine followed by water so I wouldn't throw the alcohol up to keep the effect. I vomited once so much when I was on a 2 week non stop bender drinking straight vodka that my oesophagus burst and blood splattered on the walls. That did not even stop me then.
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I am in a position of neutrality towards alcohol. I haven’t sworn it off even, it simply ceases to be anything I think about or would wish to consume. It’s a wonderful thing to be free. If seeing alcohol as something repulsive keeps you sober then stick with it. Don’t get me wrong I am fully aware there is nothing good that alcohol could possibly bring to this alcoholic but pain, misery and suffering 🙏
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Originally Posted by ThatWasTheOldMe
Forgive my language, but holy f****** s***. That is terrifying.
I was told not to drink. Ignored, So I mixed alcohol with water, I needed that ethanol to exist. Insanity. Talk about playing Russian roulette.
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Good question. I don't like the smell of people who have been drinking - and that reminds me that I could easily be that person, and keeps me on track.
I sort of hope I'll go through a revulsion stage at some point. It seems entirely logical, considering I spent 2 or 3 of my teenage years teaching myself to LIKE the taste of lager - so the reverse must be entirely possible.
Our culture/s are odd sometimes don't you think?
I sort of hope I'll go through a revulsion stage at some point. It seems entirely logical, considering I spent 2 or 3 of my teenage years teaching myself to LIKE the taste of lager - so the reverse must be entirely possible.
Our culture/s are odd sometimes don't you think?
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Maybe its the repulsion remembering where Alcohol took me in my depest active addiction. All the fights, blackouts, staggering around blind drunk, vomiting bile, withdrawals I dont know but no fond connection to booze at all anymore. I have never experienced this before, then again I have never been sober this long since my teens. Its a good repulsion to have I say. I now see alcohol for what it is.
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It's not revolting, but its appeal in terms of color, taste, and smell further recedes with each passing month (8 so far).
As others noted, though, I fear and hate it. Passing thru the liquor aisle at the grocery feels sorta like being on the roof of a high-rise with no fence or safety barrier on a windy day.
As others noted, though, I fear and hate it. Passing thru the liquor aisle at the grocery feels sorta like being on the roof of a high-rise with no fence or safety barrier on a windy day.
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Originally Posted by Lipstuck
I agree that people who are drinking are way more noticeable to me now, though. Things I missed before- the red faces, the shaking hands, the slurred speech- all make sense now. And the smell. I never want that back.
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Originally Posted by brighterday1234
I am in a position of neutrality towards alcohol. I haven’t sworn it off even, it simply ceases to be anything I think about or would wish to consume. It’s a wonderful thing to be free. If seeing alcohol as something repulsive keeps you sober then stick with it. Don’t get me wrong I am fully aware there is nothing good that alcohol could possibly bring to this alcoholic but pain, misery and suffering ��
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I can't stand even the smell of bourbon as I nearly OD on it in my early twenties.
2015 ... I gave up for 3 months ( Thanks SR) then thought I'd moderate. Well you can guess how that turned out.
Something happened in that 3 months.
I was then a big drinker of beer, rum and scotch. After those 3 months, couldn't stand the taste of beer, rum or scotch.
Shows how our brain operates. It works out what we don't want or what nearly killed us and stops us.
Wine on the other hand has a control on me. I need to get rid of it.
2015 ... I gave up for 3 months ( Thanks SR) then thought I'd moderate. Well you can guess how that turned out.
Something happened in that 3 months.
I was then a big drinker of beer, rum and scotch. After those 3 months, couldn't stand the taste of beer, rum or scotch.
Shows how our brain operates. It works out what we don't want or what nearly killed us and stops us.
Wine on the other hand has a control on me. I need to get rid of it.
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Mostly these days it’s something that is around but I avoid - like avoiding oncoming cars when crossing the road. But deep down the thought of what it did to me/my family repulses me. It’s more a psychological than physical thing. When drinking I regarded alcohol as a friend, even if I came to see it as a controlling and damaging one. Then my gut feel became more like encountering someone who would hurt my children - not sure what the right word would be but revulsion is quite close....
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I think earlier in my quit it did revolt me. I had a very strong reaction to smelling it, seeing it, being around drunk people. However as time went on and I worked on myself, this eased off and I became neutral to it.
My husband is still a daily drinker and has bottles of it around our home, I don't really see them. Well I do but no impact on me.
I am not keen on the smell of some of it. Red wine, whisky I find especially unpleasant but I think that is in a "normie" way. I think I mean I have no emotion or judgement behind it now. I had a lot of emotion attached to it before.
Great thread. Many interesting shares in here. Thanks all.
My husband is still a daily drinker and has bottles of it around our home, I don't really see them. Well I do but no impact on me.
I am not keen on the smell of some of it. Red wine, whisky I find especially unpleasant but I think that is in a "normie" way. I think I mean I have no emotion or judgement behind it now. I had a lot of emotion attached to it before.
Great thread. Many interesting shares in here. Thanks all.
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I am revolted by how it affects me personally but not by the object itself. I guess I see it the same as I don’t hate knifes even though some people have lost their lives due to one or cars as some people have been killed by them or peanuts as some people are allergic and die off them too.
It’s just an object, a knife in the hands of a chef can create beauty and feed the soul or in the hands of the murderer create death and hurt the soul. x
It’s just an object, a knife in the hands of a chef can create beauty and feed the soul or in the hands of the murderer create death and hurt the soul. x
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I can be around alcohol and people who are drinking (as long as they are not sloppy drunk) without giving it a thought. But if I imagine MYSELF drinking, I get an immediate physical reaction of nausea and shuddering. And that's after over 4 years sober. Just the thought of drinking makes me feel slightly ill. So I'm not going as far to call it a complete revulsion, since I can be around it (I have no sense of smell due to a traumatic brain injury several years ago, so I thankfully don't have to smell it) but I certainly do not want to drink it.
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