What's a "High Functioning Alcoholic?"
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I was functional. Until I wasn't. It's such a progressive disease, virtually everyone starts as high functioning, but over a sufficiently long timeline, that goes from high functioning to functioning to semi-functioning to unemployed, living in the street to dead.
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^^^I don't know about y'all, but I recall that "line" that I crossed....I knew it on a gut level, and it is as undefinable yet real as the moment I was DONE - but it took me a good 12 years, maybe 13, til I got from those points in time. You can't go back once you've crossed over- it's just about whether you surrender or not.
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Originally Posted by sugarbear1 
it's an illusion; most alcoholics are high functioning alcoholics. The only low functioning alcoholic is an almost dead one.
We seem to have an idea that a drunk is wearing a trench coat and who carries their bottle of booze in a brown paper sack.
Sad truth is that an alcoholic looks like you and me and the Preacher and the Rabbi and the Priest and the grocery clerk and the accountant and the tv news person and the teacher and cop and...….and.....
We seem to have an idea that a drunk is wearing a trench coat and who carries their bottle of booze in a brown paper sack.
Sad truth is that an alcoholic looks like you and me and the Preacher and the Rabbi and the Priest and the grocery clerk and the accountant and the tv news person and the teacher and cop and...….and.....
This is an really interesting thread Obladi.
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