Don't alcoholics tend to be

[cilla4progress]

especially emotionally volatile?

[rzemanfl]

1. All drunks are. ON EDIT

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Reading this hours later I may not have been clear. Get anybody drunk and they are emotionally volatile.

[SCantiGOP]

2. No

Addicts come in all shapes, sizes and temperaments.

[mainstreetonce]

3. Yes

They need to ask about current drinking.

[MineralMan]

4. They did. He said "I still like beer."

It was part of the testimony.

[Aristus]

5. That sounds an awful lot like:

"I'm not an alcoholic. I only drink beer."

Denial; ain't just a river in Egypt...

[Bluesaph]

6. His red cheeks are a giveaway

Those are alcoholic cheeks.

[nolabear]

7. You'd be surprised. There are many who aren't.

[gibraltar72]

8. Having served many years on board including chairmanship

of a halfway house/recovery program. I saw many behaviors I witnessed over the years. My first impression was this almost looks like an intervention. I've witnessed addicts fly in to a rage when family or friends tell them they have a problem. I've seen it manifest just as it did yesterday. Crying, shouting, blaming others. His inability to define excessive drinking sounded like rationalizing I've heard many time before.

[irisblue]

9. Alcoholics are humans. Variety of behaviors are exhibited

[Permanut]

10. 24 years in AA here..

and have seen the entire spectrum of emotional volatility. I don't know what the statistics would show, but it's impossible to apply any kind of generality to an individual.

[rzemanfl]

11. 33 years sober and I agree.

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On edit. I used to count days, now I forget about a whole year. 32 was last year.

[cilla4progress]

12. Ok. This is the term I was speaking of:

emotionally labile.

But I take your point.