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How social autopilot can undermine recovery boundaries

My coworkers invited me to happy hour and I said yes without thinking and now I am sitting here with a Coke watching everyone get drunk.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Habitual social compliance can override conscious recovery decisions, creating unexpected situations that test sobriety.

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