Unpopular opinion apparently, but alcohol and drug dependency or addiction can happen at any age. While it’s common for young adults and teens to experiment with alcohol and drugs, there is no minimum age requirement to be addicted. And acting like it’s not a problem, just because you’re younger than 25, is absolutely detrimental.
If you’re 20 and you drink an absurd amount of alcohol until you black out about once a week, that’s not being a “college partier”, that’s binge drinking. If you regularly get wasted and can’t have fun without being drunk, that’s alcohol dependency. And it’s not a pretty game. No matter your age, do NOT take substance use lightly and think that you’re exempt from addiction just because you’re young. You’re not.
If you show any signs of becoming a little too reliant on alcohol or other drugs to enjoy yourself, quit while you’re ahead. It’s time to start cutting back and taking the issue seriously instead of treating it as no big deal just because of your age. It’s not cute, it’s not “just experimenting”, and it’s not funny either.
Addiction ruins lives, don’t pretend like you’re immune just because of your age. Acting like you’re fine will be your first mistake.
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Idk, i feel like people should not have to justify their lifestyles.
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Today during my therapy session I was talking about how I'm trying to find AA meetings closer to me to make more local connections and she suddenly told me that if I can't find any, I should go to Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meetings instead because they are still 12 step programs. I was like, "um...I don't overeat. I'm just fat." And she seemed frazzled by why I found her alternative to sound shaming and rude?
"Lol"
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literally last night had my office Christmas party for the tutoring center I work for and we have a little group of math tutors that are all queer and we hadn't seen each other in forever so we decided to go out to the gay bar after and all night we were telling people we were all math tutors together and the look of shock on these people's faces when they realized they were talking to 6 queer math nerds was incredible
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Today was my office holiday party and I let an older part timer that I don't know very well come out to smoke in my car. She was kind of rambling and she said she used to be a nurse and she's surprised how many rules and regulations you have to follow in a book store. She was saying there weren't really any guidelines she had to follow as a nurse :|
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