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(29,581 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 28, 2018, 07:15 PM - Edit history (1)
Reading this hours later I may not have been clear. Get anybody drunk and they are emotionally volatile.
SCantiGOP
(13,875 posts)Addicts come in all shapes, sizes and temperaments.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)They need to ask about current drinking.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)It was part of the testimony.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)"I'm not an alcoholic. I only drink beer."
Denial; ain't just a river in Egypt...
Bluesaph
(720 posts)Those are alcoholic cheeks.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)gibraltar72
(7,515 posts)of a halfway house/recovery program. I saw many behaviors I witnessed over the years. My first impression was this almost looks like an intervention. I've witnessed addicts fly in to a rage when family or friends tell them they have a problem. I've seen it manifest just as it did yesterday. Crying, shouting, blaming others. His inability to define excessive drinking sounded like rationalizing I've heard many time before.
irisblue
(33,047 posts)Permanut
(5,687 posts)and have seen the entire spectrum of emotional volatility. I don't know what the statistics would show, but it's impossible to apply any kind of generality to an individual.
rzemanfl
(29,581 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 30, 2018, 11:25 AM - Edit history (1)
On edit. I used to count days, now I forget about a whole year. 32 was last year.
cilla4progress
(24,791 posts)emotionally labile.
But I take your point.