Originally Posted by
onlythetruth 
These terms [real alcoholic, dry drunk] get tossed about all the time. I'm not making this stuff up.
No, you are not making this stuff up. Still, neither term really bothers me much as of late. For one thing, I have no interest whatsoever in publicly labeling myself, or even in privately considering myself, an alcoholic. For another, when viewed through the lens of AVRT, the "dry drunk" condition practically becomes a joke.