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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So sorry for you and your children's loss.

You don’t mention the usual crashed cars, lost jobs, lost friends, blackout apologies and mortifying moments that most of us think of when it comes to alcoholism. I think of how much someone would have to drink to wreck ther internal organs and I can’t put it together with what you’re telling us.  
Was he otherwise fully functioning? [/quote]

I am a PP alcoholic drinking 2-3 bottles of wine every day.  Sometimes I drank much, much more at parties.  I didn’t have any DUIs, have a perfect driving record, have the same job I’ve had for 15 years, high performer at top of my field still.  I still publish.

Many alcoholics drink as stress relief, because they are type A overachievers.  I was just as good at hiding my alcoholism as I was good at everything else I have ever done.  Even now no one in my real life knows how bad it was.  I am glad AF is becoming popular with the younger set, it just makes me look cool now to be drinking kombucha instead of alcohol.

The trope of what alcoholism looks like is just a trope.  Alcoholism comes in all shapes and sizes and levels of success.[/quote]

[b]how did you function every day when hungover?[/b] [/quote]

I'm an NP. Eventually your body just tolerates the alcohol. I did not have terrible hangovers at the end of my drinking, which was 2 + bottles of wine plus hard liquor. I functioned just fine until the last year when drinking took precedence over pretty much everything.[/quote]

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