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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Daniel emailed me to ask for my thoughts on the question “Can you have an alcohol allergy?” He recalled that I had mentioned I was allergic to alcohol in a talk I gave to a group of alumni of the Sunshine Coast Health Centre.
I was a functioning alcoholic when I was younger. But in my [...]
Categories: Alcoholism Symptoms
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Tags: Alcoholism, alergy-to-alcohol, energy psychology recovery from alcoholism, mayo-clinic, recovery
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Anyone who abuses alcohol long enough or heavily enough eventually will have problems with memory. The functioning alcoholic will have memory problems. His memory problems are simply less severe than those of the skid-row alcoholic.
Categories: Alcoholism Symptoms
| Tags: al-anon, alcohol-abuse, alcoholic-blackouts, Alcoholism, codependency, dissociation, functional-alcoholic, functioning alcoholic, memory, memory-problems, short-term-memory
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Some functioning alcoholics do indeed show signs of intoxication with as little as a single drink. There are at least two different reasons why this might happen.
Categories: Alcoholism Symptoms
| Tags: alcoholic, Alcoholism, alergy-to-alcohol, functioning alcoholic
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Dr. Neill Neill
You both enjoyed a drink when you were first married. But unlike your drinking, his has increased over time. In fact it has become an integral part of everyday living for him.
It has become a familiar part of your life too, because you worry about what is happening to him and to your [...]
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage, Alcoholism Symptoms
| Tags: abuse, Alcoholism, Alcoholism Test, codependency, Marriage
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Is the “functioning alcoholic” some sort of mythical figure, or does he actually exist and move among us?
Mark comments in his short article entitled “A Functional Alcoholic?” on the fact people often say at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “I was a functioning alcoholic.” http://www.adozensteps.com/a-functional-alcoholic/
He argues from the perspective of a twelve-step program that there is no [...]
Categories: Alcoholism Symptoms
| Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, functional-alcoholic, functioning alcoholic
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