http://discoveringalcoholic.com/alcoholism/the-tda-alphabet-primer-b-is-for-blackout The Discovering Alcoholic is a top rated recovery blog covering alcoholism, substance abuse, treatment and recovery issues. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:17:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://discoveringalcoholic.com/alcoholism/the-tda-alphabet-primer-b-is-for-blackout#comment-2445 The Discovering Alcoholic Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:37:27 +0000 http://discoveringalcoholic.com/?p=3333#comment-2445 The collateral damage of alcoholism is rarely understood by those outside of recovery circles- and even then with us, it is almost impossible to get a "big picture" that adequately covers the trust, resentment, guilt, and pain that interconnects the family of an alcoholic. The collateral damage of alcoholism is rarely understood by those outside of recovery circles- and even then with us, it is almost impossible to get a “big picture” that adequately covers the trust, resentment, guilt, and pain that interconnects the family of an alcoholic.

]]> http://discoveringalcoholic.com/alcoholism/the-tda-alphabet-primer-b-is-for-blackout#comment-2408 Zentient Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:59:06 +0000 http://discoveringalcoholic.com/?p=3333#comment-2408 Fallout from blackouts were frightening to me as a child. My father would make promises when he was drunk, and when I mentioned them to him when he sobered up, he would go into a rage. He just knew that I was conning him into something he had never promised. His denial and lies to himself were turned on me, and I was the liar. This is how trust is destroyed in a child raised with an alcoholic, that has to be rebuilt as an adult. Fallout from blackouts were frightening to me as a child. My father would make promises when he was drunk, and when I mentioned them to him when he sobered up, he would go into a rage. He just knew that I was conning him into something he had never promised. His denial and lies to himself were turned on me, and I was the liar. This is how trust is destroyed in a child raised with an alcoholic, that has to be rebuilt as an adult.

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