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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 117359" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Nomatic, I found the following article about being a Dry Drunk.</p><p></p><p>If you google the term "dry drunk" or "dry alcoholic" you will find a number of other useful articles.</p><p></p><p>Essentially, a dry drunk is someone who has stopped drinking, but hasn't taken any steps to change the part of them that led them to drink in the first place.</p><p></p><p>My sister in law is a dry drunk. After her 3rd or 4th? hospitalization for acute pancreatitis this summer, and being told by the doctor that if she took so much as one more drink <em>ever </em>it would be a death sentence, she stopped hitting the bottle. Ever since then, she is the most miserable, bitter, horrible person to be around. Her behaviour is almost worse now than when she was drinking.</p><p></p><p>Her issue is that she hasn't done any therapy, any analysis, or gotten herself into any program that will help her work through why she nearly drank herself to death in the first place. Until she does that, she's miserable and determined to make everyone around her equally miserable. And, since she hasn't done any of the work to understand why she became a drunk, she doesn't have the insight or skills she needs to get sober and stay sober.</p><p></p><p>It's a hard, hard road.</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 117359, member: 3907"] Nomatic, I found the following article about being a Dry Drunk. If you google the term "dry drunk" or "dry alcoholic" you will find a number of other useful articles. Essentially, a dry drunk is someone who has stopped drinking, but hasn't taken any steps to change the part of them that led them to drink in the first place. My sister in law is a dry drunk. After her 3rd or 4th? hospitalization for acute pancreatitis this summer, and being told by the doctor that if she took so much as one more drink [I]ever [/I]it would be a death sentence, she stopped hitting the bottle. Ever since then, she is the most miserable, bitter, horrible person to be around. Her behaviour is almost worse now than when she was drinking. Her issue is that she hasn't done any therapy, any analysis, or gotten herself into any program that will help her work through why she nearly drank herself to death in the first place. Until she does that, she's miserable and determined to make everyone around her equally miserable. And, since she hasn't done any of the work to understand why she became a drunk, she doesn't have the insight or skills she needs to get sober and stay sober. It's a hard, hard road. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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