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Recovery Elevator

044: Is Alcoholism a Disability? According to Former USC Head Football Coach it is.

Recovery Elevator

Paul

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we heard from 33 year old Autumn, explains how she has been a successful student and a mom in sobriety.   According to an article from the Los Angeles Times, Steve Sarkisian is suing former employer University of California for improper dismissal when he was recently fired as Head Football coach due to his drinking problem. Coach Sarkisian is seeking monies of $30,000,000, which he feels is properly owed to him due to California state laws. Here are this weeks "You Might be an Alcoholic if's" Tommy- You wake up mid black out and you're being arrested.   Richard- Indiana If you leave a message at work while blacked out saying you've been up all night throwing up and you won't be in to work the next morning. Only when you wake up, you forgot you called in sick and the first thing the boss says to you is, "Richard, I thought you were vomiting all night and weren't coming in this morning"?   Shelly- If you tell your family on Christmas Day that this is your big hurrah before quitting, and then everyday until New Years you sneak beer and pour it into a large mug to hide it.   Racheal- If you've gone two weeks sober, and then you decide to have wine at lunch while out with your (sober) husband, and the minute you decide to have that wine you are instantly irritated that the server is taking too long to come back to take your food order. At this moment, you can no longer hear anything your husband is saying, and then you drink your glass in 10 minutes and order a second one while he's in the bathroom so he doesn't judge you.   Carrie- You cut the end off the wine bag and drain it out so you don't ware any. This podcast episode was brought to you by Sober Nation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Recovery Yavator episode 44.

0:02.0

It was this allergy in my body if I had a taste of alcohol I would have to finish drinking and the only thing that would stop me would be passing out or running out of alcohol.

0:19.4

Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast.

0:21.1

My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. According to my Recovery Elevator Podcast, my name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us.

0:23.4

According to my recovery elevator sobriety tracker on my phone, I have been sober for one year,

0:28.3

three months and six days. On today's podcast, we've got Autumn. She's born in 1982. Side note, which is a great

0:35.8

vintage year, myself 1982, and autumn has been sober for nearly three years. She's been sober

0:41.5

since January 26th, 2013. I really wanted to get Autumn on the

0:46.6

podcast. I was forwarded an article that was done on Autumn about students in

0:51.2

recovery at Montana State University.

0:54.0

Now I know firsthand that coming out in the public is gutsy.

0:57.7

In fact, it's terrifying to say the least.

1:00.0

So when I read this story about Autumn, who's in college,

1:02.9

being the face of recovery in her university,

1:05.8

I was like, man, I gotta get this girl on the podcast

1:08.8

because she's doing some awesome things.

1:11.1

The topic of today's podcast, Recovery Elevator episode 44 is, is alcoholism

1:17.4

or your drinking problem a disability? Now it's very important while listening to this

1:22.1

podcast episode to listen to these similarities

1:25.0

and not the differences.

1:26.4

If you're a female out there listening right now, you're going to say, oh, this is about a football coach.

1:30.8

I don't like football.

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