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Help An Alcoholic Get Sober

16 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube advice clip by Amber Hollingsworth about supporting someone with alcohol use disorder who is trying to stay sober. The speaker emphasizes that loved ones' role is to support rather than to 'stop' the person, and highlights that keeping alcohol in the home makes sobriety substantially harder because it forces repeated decisions and rapidly depletes willpower.

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It's not your job to stop them. It's just your job to support them and not make it harder than it has to be. And when you have alcohol in the house, it's really freaking hard because it's like talking to you. Yes, I know they could get in their car and go mile down the street and get it if they wanted to. But in your home, I feel like it should be a safe place where you can, like, rest and relax and get your guard down a little bit. And when it's in the home, literally every minute of every day, you are having to remake the decision over and over and over. Don't go in there and open that bottle. And you're really burning through that willpower at a very rapid rate when it's in the house. And they're resisting all the time. So, yes, I have seen people get sober with alcohol in the house. I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm just saying, like, don't make it harder than it has to be.