Attempting to get clean is a tough enough task to deal with on its own but since I started this all i do is see people on Facebook talking about how much they drink and so on. Also work is another place that the drinking conversations really never stop. Any advice on how to deal with this?
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It is interesting how much u notice booze is everywhere when u get sober. If u can politely get away from it at all I suggest u do. Idk honestly since quitting I really am unimpressed with drinkers (myself when drinking included)⌠it usually involves a lot of annoying and/Or unattractive behavior. And of course feeling like Crap the next day. I really do not envy that (but also accept people are free to make their own choices)! I am happy with mine. 
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Yep!!
It is funny because you donât realise how prevalent it is until you decide to give it up. Honestly it is the same thing as when I decided to become vegan. All of the sudden it was meat adds EVERYWHERE. People posting pictures of their steak dinners on FB. Aaaaahhhhh. Now I experience it with booze.
I donât know really how to tell you to deal with it though. I just sit there and tell myself that I am on the right side of the issue and they are victims of advertising. Weâve been told since a very young age that drinking was normal and cool. Advertisements, movies, songsâŚall of it glamorizes drinking. But youâre stronger than that. Advertisers donât manipulate you!!
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Yep. Headphones.
Ugh, hearing people talk about their stupid weekends is obnoxious. I donât care, you have a beer belly, shut the hell up.
I work in a place with cubicles so listening to music to drown others out works for me.
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Iâve been vegetarian, mostly vegan, for most of my life. I guess about 30 years by now. People often say things like, Humans have been eating animals for thousands of years, so whatâs the problem? Itâs a bad argument. Just because something is perceived as ânormalâ doesnât make it good or right, for society or for me personally. I knew that. But itâs amazing to me to realize that I made the same mental leaps with alcohol. I thought, Itâs normal; everybody around me drinks; humans have been drinking for millennia; so that justifies my daily drinking and means itâs not a problem. Only now do I realize how silly that line of thought is. Iâd say, switch off Facebook and tune out as much as possible of the discourse that is telling you, Drinking is normal. And remember that other people are on their journey, yours is yours, and you know whatâs right for you.
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Oh my god @Elisabeth youâre hilarious 
I love your no-nonsense attitude!
If anyone ever gives me grief, can I give you a shout? Youâd sort them right out! 
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Come onâŚeven JESUS drank wine. It must be ârightâ to do!!
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When I feel really bogged down with all the alcohol advertising & talk I remind myself that people used to use Cocaine and Opium regularly for everything from stomach aches to acne, like it wasnât addictive or toxic. Hell, Victorian women would use straight Arsenic to lighten their complexion!
And then I think to myself "those fools, just wait until society comes to terms with their alcohol misuse and abuse, Iâll be on the right side of history!"
I feel like thereâs increasingly more awareness about alcohol addiction and abuse- more research, documentaries, stricter regulations, doctors are even saying now people really shouldnât be drinking at allâŚ
Weâre the smart ones, ahead of the curve! Stay strong!
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Amazing attitude, I started out in recovery always relapsing because everyone(social and media/fb) make it seem normal. My journey has to believe itâs not for me. 
thank you.
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It is the new thing. Drinking is glamorous again. Brown liquor, wine, vodka. Drinking every night is the new normal. I guess we were cool before it was cool.
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I find I am constantly looking in other peopleâs trolley at the supermarket to see how much noise they are drinking
I do this too, and often find myself thinking - âGood God man! Are you wise?!â followed by 'Enjoy your hangover 
If it bothered me that much, I would recommend getting off of Facebook and all social media. In the end itâs mostly politics (ok, i was guilty there too), other peopleâs great vacations, other people partying, and puppies and kittens.
I am actually a bartender, so itâs been an interesting (although short) journey for me so far. But when people start to annoy me (or even if I feel temptation) I just think about how theyâre gonna feel tomorrow and it all goes away.
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Iâm also a bartender, and I see a lot of the same people everyday. To think that I also used to drink that much every day disgusts me when I look back now. Although the last few years I did almost all my drinking at home alone. Youâre off to a good start! Keep it up!
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A actually feel bad for all the times I would offer to âbuy you a drinkâ to the bartender. Even when they looked pretty soused.