A wee thread🧵| 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 😬
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 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 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
'The smell of booze was part of the fabric of my childhood': the hidden victims of alcoholism

What’s it like to grow up the child of an alcoholic? One writer looks back at her teenage years, and talks to others about fear, shame and survival

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/26/smell-booze-fabric-childhood-hidden-victims-alcoholism
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