http://greenlagirl.com/clicklist-happy-feminists-and-alcohol/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:38:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://greenlagirl.com/clicklist-happy-feminists-and-alcohol/comment-page-1/#comment-477216 M Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:16:11 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/?p=12865#comment-477216 Another reason not mentioned about why people might be more "depressed" if they don't drink is that the non-drinking people may feel responsible for the people that are drinking. For example they may end up taking care of adults because they are too drunk to care for themselves (providing rides, helping with legal problems and violence), taking care of fractured families and social groups due to alcoholic tendencies or else they have seen and experienced first hand what damage alcohol can do to innocent people. The result is that the whole alcohol-related environment is a bit more loaded for some people than to the people drinking. Maybe people are honest about this sort of reasoning for a study, but in social situations people feel very uncomfortable hearing someone say they are not drinking because they have close family members that died, someone close to them was nearly killed by someone that was very drunk or was severely injured by alcohol. Another reason not mentioned about why people might be more “depressed” if they don’t drink is that the non-drinking people may feel responsible for the people that are drinking. For example they may end up taking care of adults because they are too drunk to care for themselves (providing rides, helping with legal problems and violence), taking care of fractured families and social groups due to alcoholic tendencies or else they have seen and experienced first hand what damage alcohol can do to innocent people. The result is that the whole alcohol-related environment is a bit more loaded for some people than to the people drinking. Maybe people are honest about this sort of reasoning for a study, but in social situations people feel very uncomfortable hearing someone say they are not drinking because they have close family members that died, someone close to them was nearly killed by someone that was very drunk or was severely injured by alcohol.

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