As professionals in the 1990's we were all touched by not having a foundation where we even recognized substance abuse isssues. We'd come of age ignoring that all that stuff affects everyone.
We worked the recignition just like that of discrimination into a more well-awareness. For a while we were all sticking together at work on drug-free and "been there done that" in terms of unwellness not being work. It made not being at work a little scarier. And the social scene seemed weird for a while.
We curved our differences into being professional businesspeople. While some people were support for each other, on the whole we weren't an all day "meeting". We did adapt tools and experiences to flow charts and P2P though. Socially, people older than us were honest--this sucks! There was encouragement not to be like "this". Didn't mean we didn't go through our own tough stuff. But it meant a general right and wrong way to go about stuff.
And it became cool not to drag all of our pasts into work day. Less counseling of each other; more respect for who somebody is today!
We've got this.
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