Functional Alcoholism and Right-Wing Extremism
Michael asks:
What do you think of "functioning alcoholics?" For
example, my father always drank. He seems to have
slowed down since I was a kid, and since his DUI and
maniacal fights with my mother when they were married
during the 70's and 80's, he never appears to exhibit
any of the behavioral cues associated with alcoholism.
He still drinks, I'm sure, more than once a week.
Enjoys drinking "fraternities" such as the Moose and
Eagles. His current wife is not an alcoholic....maybe
she takes up some of the slack such as driving.
I theorize that my family is shot through with
"functioning" addicts. On my mother's side, I've
noticed pompousness and grandiosity in her one (over
achieving) brother, with arrested development in the
other. ...
