| Dry Drunk #2
recently,a thread was discussed about dry drunks
A lady friend sent this to me,I wanted to post it.It has some good useful info in it.
Dry Drunk Syndrome
Sobriety will necessarily have its ups and downs, its good times and its bad times,
if only because we live in a world which we are inseparably joined.
One doesn't always sustain sobriety at the same level. There are fluctuations, shocks
and setbacks which, when addressed within the context of the A.A. program, so not in
themselves imperil the totality of one's sobriety. The Dry Drunk Syndrome is a term
that should not be used as a catch-all when one has a bad day or a bump in life throws
us for a while. Those are ups and downs that everyone experiences and shouldn't be
labeled to be anything more than what they truly are. The Dry Drunk is a condition
far more serious than the highs and lows of our day-to-day existence.
The phrase "dry drunk" has two significant words for the alcoholic.
"Dry" refers to the abstinence from drinking, whereas "drunk" signifies a deeply
pathological condition resulting from the use of alcohol in the past.
Taken together these words suggest intoxication without alcohol.
Since intoxication comes from the Greek word for poison, "dry drunk" implies
a state of mind and a mode of behavior that are poisonous to the alcoholic's well being.
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