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Hi everyone, welcome to Recovery Happy Hour, where we talk about life beyond the bottle and

what happens after we stop drinking. I'm your host Trisha and last Friday I burned an entire

court of pinion wood in my chimney because that's what we do on weekends now. So welcome, thank you

for joining me. Well good morning, how's everyone doing? This episode won air for a few days, but it's

early Sunday morning while I'm recording this. So wake you wake you Trisha, let's all enjoy my

morning voice and dig right into this episode. I'm hitting another greatest hits of topics today,

and that's high functioning alcoholism. I talked about it on episode one, and I've touched about

it here and there in a lot of intros, but that first episode was almost three years ago, and the

audio has greatly improved since then. So let's just revisit that, shall we? I started this show for

many different kinds of humans to listen to, but the types that I relate to as far as my drinking

was concerned are the high functioning drinker, and the person who's afraid to quit because they're

not sure if their problem is bad enough. I was both of those people, and the reason why I ask

every interview we at the beginning of every episode, if they were a high functioning or a low

functioning drinker, is to help prove a point that you can look like you've got your life completely

together and have a drinking problem that's bad enough to decide to want to stop completely.

These two things often coexist in the same person, and not being able to connect the two is what

kept me miserable for so long. It's hard to convince someone, let alone yourself, who looks

totally fine, to accept the fact that they're not fine, and there are so many external factors

that play here too. You know, a lot of us are taught not to talk about it if we're struggling,

to fake it till you make it, to not ask for help because you're going to try to figure it out on

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