Know someone who's giving up alcohol? Ditch these unhelpful questions and comments.
I genuinely see a wave of change happening when it comes to the culture of drinking,” she says. “I’d like to hope that we are moving away from a culture where we just assume that everyone consumes alcohol because it is a norm.”Taking time off from drinking should be more normalized -- and when people ask impolite questions about doing so, that implies that it's somehow wrong.alcohol is the one drug people have to offer an explanation for not using.
“Saying something like this subconsciously states that you believe their only adequate coping mechanism is alcohol,” Brown says. “It disregards the option that the participant has other coping mechanisms for stress, which can have a strong impact on the participant’s view of themselves and how they believe they cope with stress.”Before my first Dry January, I wondered if I would miss drinking.
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