Does drinking in movies bother anyone else?

[bif]

I don't mean a couple glasses of wine, but people getting totally hammered. I started watching the series "Patrick Melrose" on Netflix and while it's supposed to be very well done, seeing Benedict Cumberbatch get absolutely blotto bugged me. I had to stop it 20 minutes in.

[orangecrush]

1. It used to

Used to be I could actually literally smell beer during the commercials.

It goes away with time.

[bif]

3. It usually doesn't bother me

But for some reason it does lately. It doesn't make me want to drink, it just appalls me. Our minds sure work in mysterious ways.

[orangecrush]

4. Especially with addiction

Talk about it with other sober minded people.

Knowing you don't have to deal with it alone really helps.

[bif]

7. I'll mention it in tomorrow's SMART meeting

[orangecrush]

9. Good, and I wish you success

It will be 10 years this November for me.

Take my word, life is so much better without the poison.

[bif]

10. It's been almost 6 years for me

It's a lot easier these days. I almost never think about drinking. I hit a point right around the 5-year mark where it got noticeably easier.

[orangecrush]

11. Congratulations!

I used to think living sober would suck.

Really glad I was wrong!

[SarahD]

2. Part of the character?

Our attitudes about drinking are different than 40 years ago, when drinking and smoking were manly attributes to be admired. I am reminded of this because there was a series of Matt Helm detective movies with Dean Martin swilling booze and puffing cigarettes. And looking silly doing it. Nowadays, alcoholism is something the protagonist must fight and overcome.

[jimfields33]

5. Not a bit. It's a movie and typically go with the story.

[RainCaster]

6. Nope. It took a while, but I got over it

Other people drinking doesn't bother me at all. I have no urges to go back to that, because my relationship with alcohol was so different than everyone else's.

[Timewas]

8. No

We are the different ones, we cannot drink socially, That is what it comes down to, they are "normal" society and having a drink now and then is "normal" for them and in most movies(and in real life)this is a socially acceptable "norm". On the other hand getting "hammered" as you put it is not anything at all "normal" in society.

Just not for us.If it causes you to want to join them then turn it off,do not allow it to jeopardize you program.