Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2873-2877 (12-16 January 2015)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 13 Jan 2015, 18:32 ---I'm a bit disappointed that Marten hasn't expressed much concern over Faye, especially since she's been drunk or hungover every time he's seen her in the past 2-3 days.
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Mmm... though it can be tricky to distinguish between drinking too much and alcoholic behaviour. I suspect that if he'd seen Faye's morning routine from the last strip, he'd have reacted more strongly.
HauntedNorth:
That's one of the worst parts of it. My dad is/was/is an alcoholic. Yeah, he'd have a heavy on the whiskey jack and coke in front of me pretty much nightly, but I started monitoring the level in the bottle out of the fear of how much he was drinking. It was a hell of a lot more than I realized, and near constant.
jwhouk:
Which brings me to my next observation: David Whitaker.
I openly wonder what his BAC may have been when the events of strip 505 happened.
Japheree:
Pretty scary stuff in todays strip.
As someone who has had problems with drinking I have been monitoring this storyline pretty closely and it breaks my heart. Up until today it looked like a classic case of someone desperate for her friends to notice something was up and to do something about to help her. I have been there and how I wished for an assertive friend to have kicked me in the arse at times. It looked like problem drinking but not quite alcoholism (I know problematic definitions but there are differences IMO.
Thankfully, I have never ever got as bad as todays strip (and hopefully now sober, I never will). I never had a physical addiction, always regretted drinking the morning after and never started up the morning after (I just couldn't face the evenings). I was actually pretty functional. Make no mistake, Faye is in a very very bad way indeed. It seems to have come about fast but then, if she was drinking heavily in a social context anyway, I guess she didn't have far to fall to get where she is.
I hope something can intervene before it gets even worse, I hope something comes along to shock her into sense and not send her the other way.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Akima on 14 Jan 2015, 03:45 ---
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 13 Jan 2015, 18:32 ---I'm a bit disappointed that Marten hasn't expressed much concern over Faye, especially since she's been drunk or hungover every time he's seen her in the past 2-3 days.
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Mmm... though it can be tricky to distinguish between drinking too much and alcoholic behavior. I suspect that if he'd seen Faye's morning routine from the last strip, he'd have reacted more strongly.
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This is the "danger" of the way the story's being told. It was clear to us that Faye had a potential problem weeks ago. Knowing that, it was also clear to us that the things she's done with Marten and Dora were red flags.
But Marten and Dora don't have our perspective. Dora doesn't know that Faye's been over doing it home. Marten doesn't know that Faye tried to drink at work. Neither knows that she's starting the day by reaching for the bottle on the floor.
All that said, it is already straining suspension of disbelief that neither one of them has cottoned to what's happening. That's due to presentation.
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