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| CN: alcohol use, death, hospitalisation
It's #AlcoholAwarenessWeek. Always take this opportunity to talk about the impact on others. I wrote an almost-300 page book about the impact of parental substance use on young adults so have PLENTY to say on the matter
| CN: alcohol use, death, hospitalisationIt's #AlcoholAwarenessWeek. Always take this opportunity to talk about the impact on others. I wrote an almost-300 page book about the impact of parental substance use on young adults so have PLENTY to say on the matter
You will definitely know someone who has been affected by a parent's drinking. It's a shitty situation to live through. Be compassionate. Listen. Avoid using stigmatising language (shout out to @ScotFamADrugs and @SDFnews for their great work on terminology recently published).
I used to write a lot about my ~feels*~ when I was in the thrust of it. Also used writing to process a lot of it. I was lucky to be able to embed it in PhD work using autoethnography. I will very likely delete this later, but for now, here is the first 'story' (all true).
I can only imagine what it is like going through it right now in the midst of a pandemic, and being told to stay at home. If you're struggling with this, please reach out to someone you love + have a chat. Lots of fab work being done for folk like us by @ScotFamADrugs @NacoaUK 
Good article from yesterday's Guardian (although will fiercely contest/fight to the death anyone who uncritically claims generational transmission is A Thing) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/26/smell-booze-fabric-childhood-hidden-victims-alcoholism
