Anybody else here ever had to deal with alcoholics (wet or dry)?

[live2011]

I have, as a drug & alcohol abuse counselor in the Air Force and later working with AA. Judge Kavanaugh has the typical "ruddy complexion" of someone who has or has had a problem with alcohol. Also the rapidly changing moods are another giveaway.

[BigmanPigman]

1. That's what another DUer said earlier too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11197721

[lindysalsagal]

2. The defensive, angry, resentful, entitled attitude is typical of addicts: No matter how much they me

mess up or destroy others. No consideration for others or empathy for the damage done. Until they hit bottom.

If the rumors I've read about his gambling are at all true, he's had enough brushes with the bottom, and survived them, to believe he's still in control and able to handle his additions. As far as we all know, he hasn't been face down in the gutter, so, he thinks he's bigger than the addiction.

Very typical.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I worked in 2 facilities where the staff docs were supposedly in recovery.

They gave me invaluable lessons in the behavior of dry drunks.
One was a rage a holic, who got fired from 3 places because of his temper and abuse of staff.

That anger and emotional behavior of Kavanaugh today is a dead give away.

[Blue_true]

4. My dad.

Good man when sober. Absolute mean monster when not. But, he is the only person that I have ever known who ended an addiction on his very own, no AA, no nothing, he just stopped hard liquor and then beer until he spent the last decade plus of his life completely sober.

[eleny]

8. I'm glad you had him for a sober decade

[Blue_true]

9. Yes, it was good. nt

[Thekaspervote]

5. Yes!! fits the model perfectly. Angry, bully, liar, bloviates. He even has that alcoholic skin tone

[GemDigger]

6. My ex had both an anger management and drinking problem.

No exaggeration but he could go from laughing loudly to raging mad in 10 seconds over nothing.

[mountain grammy]

7. My ex husband..that was him exactly

His wife and kids are miserable.

[HipChick]

10. Ex-Boss...his daughter had to have a "dry" wedding..

because of him...no alcohol was allowed at the wedding

and she didn't trust him to be behave himself..