Originally Posted by
embraced2000 
imo, there are many that truly have other very deep seated mental illnesses.
There are some, mostly depression, but some narcissism, borderline personality disorders, Bipolar, toss in sexually abused children, or people normal in every other way...alcoholics are just like everyone else that way, a melting pot, toss in alcoholism on top of anything and it magnifies it 10x though IMO.
Some of us do end up pretty nice people though when sober, then some of us end up pretty nice people and end up dating one of these alcoholics and everything we ever did to someone gets done to us and we end up here....b1tching about alcoholics....
Some Irony there I suppose