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Drinking, Addiction and Divorce: Testing Times
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It is often said that marriage and alcohol do not mix.
I write this at a time when everyone appears to have a fascination with what others are drinking and when I say what I mean how much.
Alcoholism has as many names and faces for me; many of them are no longer here
- “John” An advertising executive who I represented in the vain hope of seeing his children before he finished himself off. I took an assortment of therapists to his home past the hall table with photographs of better healthier times. He had a fall and was admitted to hospital where he detoxed and developed Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (also known as “Wet Brain”) a kind of dementia.
- “Mary” The October after her death in the middle of her divorce I had a call from her husband telling me that it was “autumn…..the leaves have fallen from the garden hawthorn hedge” and all he could see were the rows of ...
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