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Group Therapy: Should I forgive My husband Or Should I Just Leave Him?
Two years ago my husband confessed to a secret drinking problem. That day he went to rehab and spent 30 days getting sober. His betrayal and confession nearly destroyed me; it was the lowest time of my life.
DearSugar Needs Your Help: My Best Friend Is a Total Mess!
DearSugar and She's Gone Off The Deep End Danielle need your help. Her best friend is leading a secret life of alcohol abuse and infidelity and she doesn't know what to do. Her family is all in the know but she's in such denial that their attempts to help aren't working.
Sober Knows Best
I could never be a proponent of the temperance movement (long live liquid sanity!), but these gals still kick arse in my book. Unlike all the other defeated and docile women of yesteryear, these ladies had the gumption to take a stand group photo and rally behind a cause they were passionate about. If there were a modern-day nacho movement, I'd do the same.
The Non-Alcoholic Keg Party
A group of Princeton punks decided to throw a keg party and not tell anyone that the brew was zero proof. So everyone drank, chugged, and had a gay, old time until the "alcohol" kicked in — then the real party started. Sober drunks are the worst.
TGIF!
Yes y'all, Friday has finally arrived and for most of us it'll bring a long weekend with it. Do you have any party plans yet? And if so, will drinking games be involved?
The OCD
Take the gang from The OC, add a variety of psychological issues (as if these kids need anymore!), and what do you get? A little something called: The OCD. In between the repetitive hand washing, word spelling, lock adjusting and overconsumption of alcoholic beverages, the drama unfolds.
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A News Study Shows Alcoholics Misread Facial Cues
They don’t call it getting blotto for nothing.
You’ve probably heard the claim that alcohol kills brain cells. A new study makes this a little more concrete: long-time alcoholics’ brains (even those who are now sober) are not good at recognizing facial expressions.
How to Spot a High-Functioning Alcoholic
High-functioning alcoholics are often considered a hidden class of addict, but I've met more than a few of them in my life. So has Sarah Allen Benton, a recovering high-functioning alcoholic who just released a book about the disease: Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic.
According to Benton, a so-called HFA is someone who lives a seemingly normal life, often balancing family or romance with a successful career, while also abusing alcohol — and often denying it.
Alcohol Makes Your Mind Wander, But You Won't Notice
Anyone who's been tipsy knows it can set your mind a-wandering. What's worse, you may not even notice that it's wandering. Wait, sorry — what was I just saying?
Have Cafe Novelists Replaced Boozin' Writers?
In the past, the writer's life was often a lush life. Many great American novelists — including Ernest Hemingway and John Cheever — were notorious drunks. In fact, according to an article by Tom Shone in the new issue of More Intelligent Life, five of America's seven Nobel literary laureates were alcoholics:
In America William Faulkner and Scott Fitzgerald were the Paris and Britney of their day, caught in the funhouse mirror of fame, their careers a vivid tabloid mash-up of hospitalizations and electroshock therapies.
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