this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
148 points (93.5% liked)
Casual Conversation
3439 readers
181 users here now
Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.
RULES
- Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling.
- Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible.
- Avoid controversial topics (e.g. politics or societal debates).
- Stay calm: Don’t post angry or to vent or complain. We are a place where everyone can forget about their everyday or not so everyday worries for a moment. Venting, complaining, or posting from a place of anger or resentment doesn't fit the atmosphere we try to foster at all. Feel free to post those on !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
- Keep it clean and SFW
- No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.
Casual conversation communities:
Related discussion-focused communities
- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca
- !askmenover30@lemm.ee
- !dads@feddit.uk
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
- !movies@lemm.ee
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Booze is good fun, but not if you're prone to dependency on substances. I really like booze to heighten a mood a bit more, but there's a point where I don't like it anymore. I think there's quite a few people that never recognise their personal boundary when it approaches and then it flies on by.
Like almost everything in life—substances, exercise, sun, food—moderation is key. Enjoy too much of a good thing and it'll start harming you.
Yeah as an introvert with pretty bad social anxiety it's hard to imagine where I'd be if I was a teetotaler. I don't think it's hard to stay in control, and I'm a different person after a few drinks - all that anxiety just fades away and I'm like a different person entirely.
Bring a journal with you—or something—and write down why you feel great and not anxious.
Read it when you're feeling quiet and anxious.
Society can be a prison and social anxiety is the most common symptom of a captive. Everyone's happy when they are themselves. You can have fun with alcohol, but you can have just as much fun without it. Nothing is different except that alcohol drops your guard and makes you care less about what others think.
I've been in my backyard with headphones, dancing alone like no one's watching. I now do that all the time without booze, because clearly I want to do that to feel happy. Fuck anxiety. Don't let it become depression 😘