Jekyll and Hyde
The biggest problem with the whole Jekyll and Hyde dichotomy is that Jekyll is the one who suffers for all of Hyde's shenanigans! It just came to me yesterday that all the issues I am facing now were committed by the person I become when I drink. That person is not me, but I am facing far more pain and agony as the real me than I did as the careless, reckless, selfish, insensitive person I became when drinking. All the people I hurt or whose trust I betrayed are hurting and distrusting because of what that "other guy" did. This isn't my way of trying to wriggle out of any culpability - I became that other person knowing full well what the outcome would be and that it wouldn't be good for me or anyone else - but it is interesting that it's when I'm back in control of my faculties that I really have hell to pay! And it's when I'm the real me that I feel all the associated guilt, shame, and remorse, with no escape hatch.