Reframing the addiction as a disease helped me understand that my father didn’t want to hurt himself or my family.
Tag: alcoholism and creativity
The Eternal Holiday of the Alcoholic
When you drink constantly, you become numb, slipping down into a sub-life, a waking coma. You become a chaotic ghost that exists almost at one step removed from everything else. The following is an excerpt from Jolly Lad – The Expanded North American Edition, published this month by MIT Press and available here. After I… Continue reading The Eternal Holiday of the Alcoholic
Academics and Alcoholism
Academics too often share a simultaneous denial and pride in their alcoholism, and the profession does little to dissuade such a sentiment, even with all the attendant problems it brings, preferring to interpret self-medication as mere collegiality. I’ve heard it repeated as a recovery truism that nobody is too dumb to stop drinking, but plenty… Continue reading Academics and Alcoholism
