Can’t enjoy alcohol anymore

Whenever I was in high school and me and my friends started drinking, I loved it. It would make me feel loose and excited and happy. I remember nights in my early twenties where we’d drink and stay up all night at a party or something.

I swear, ever since I turned 24 I can’t enjoy alcohol anymore. It was like someone flipped an off switch. The very first and most prominent effect I get from alcohol is now simply just tiredness. If I have so much as a sip, my brain and body just want to crawl in bed.

I’m not like this when I don’t drink. I’m in college and work a full time physical job so I can get tired some days, but it’s not like how it feels on alcohol. I’ve tried everything. Sleeping better before drinking, only drinking on days I haven’t worked, eating better. Exercising. Less drinks, more drinks. Liquor, beer, seltzers. Doesn’t matter. All I want to do is go to sleep.

I’m not a huge drinker by any means, but I hangout with a friend group usually every other week and we all have drinks. I feel like I can’t enjoy it anymore. It’s actually making me kinda sad. I haven’t been drinking the past few times we’ve went, and while I do feel more awake and alert sober, I miss the social lubricating part of drinking and the way it used to make me feel.