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Someone whose relationship with drinking stopped being optional and started being the boss.
means A person who has a chronic, compulsive dependence on alcohol, unable to reliably control how much or when they drink.
from Built from 'alcohol' plus the suffix '-ic' (meaning 'relating to' or 'affected by'). 'Alcohol' itself traces back to Arabic al-kuḥl, a fine powder of antimony used as eye makeup — the 'essence' or 'spirit' extracted from a substance through distillation. Medieval chemists broadened it to mean any purified essence, and by the 1700s-1800s it had narrowed to the intoxicating spirit in drink. 'Alcoholic' as a noun describing the person, rather than the substance, emerged in the 1800s alongside the growing medical view of habitual drunkenness as a disease rather than simply a vice.
- not willpower
- brain chemistry hijacked, not a character flaw
- denial clause
- usually the last one to notice
- spectrum
- functioning and falling apart look identical sometimes
- recovery math
- one day at a time, forever, basically