IS really such a condtion as DRY DRUNK ?

Question

I have heard this term used to make fun of the president . He abused alcohol and claimed to have found god at the age of 40 and stopped .
Some who disagree with him call him a Dry Drunk a pergorative used in AA to describe a person who does not use alcohol but is not a AA member.
Reading this site set up to look as a offical medical site
http://www.minnesotarecovery.info/literature/drydrunk.htm



I wonder if Dry Drunk does not fit closer to Anti social personality disorder.
http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe04.html

Why does one have to attend AA to stop drinking or moderate when 95 % of those who go to AA leave in a year and most heavy drinkers stop or moderate on thier own How can Not going to AA be used s a diagnostic criteria or a disorder?
AA is but one of many ways to stop or moderate .

3 fedral courts have found AA to be religion the Supream court let stand a ruling it is . .
So why is not going to a relgious service a disorder ?

The Serneity Prayer is a distinctly Christain prayer that has be atributed to a few different people one being Reinhold Niebuhr , se this you migh hav to register http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/12/14/beyond_serenity/

To say AA is not a religion is like saying that Ben an Jerries is not an ice cream
You might not like them or thier produicts but they in fact make ice cream

I a still thik it is perogative used to mean a person is not drinkoing and not in a 12 step porgram I have had heard it used NBy 12 steppers in reffence to members of SMART SOS. and others .

Why should 12 steppers be concerned that others have found a way to abstainwoith puit AA /NA GA Ad nauseam .
It still seems like perogative used to make fun of a person who has not totalty devoted thier lives to a 12 step religigiouis program. which leads me to a ne qeustion to ask thanks again and RaySNY keep up the goodwrok
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Answer 1

"Dry drunk" has nothing to do with anti-social behavior. It only has to do with not working an AA program and not drinking.

It's used as a slur; a dry drunk doesn't have to have any other symptoms. Of course, AA members believe otherwise and will badger a person with the label, saying he'll never stay sober, and at the first hint of him defending himself, will be told he's angry, a sure sign of being a dry drunk. Abstaining means nothing to AA members, you must embrace the program in order to be "sober". This is total Billsh*t and just another example of how AA employs loaded language as a form of control.

Answer 2

A dry drunk can be any drinker who stopped drinking - they do not need to be going to meetings or therapy - just not drinking. It is AA's one-day-at-a-time policy that says a drinker is never cured, but just recovering one day at a time. The same is true of NA and drugs. Note: AA does NOT moderate - stopping is their ONLY way!

AA does use the Serenity Prayer - but it is not a religion - and anyone, of any faith or lack of can attend meetings. Some meetings are held in rooms belonging to churches, but the meetings have nothing to do with the church.

Answer 3

AA in my opinion is a cult and that's that. on the president, he is a narrow minded individual and a waste is a terrible thing to mind.