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WCDT 2976-2980 (8 - 12 June 2015)

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Method of Madness:
Same, which is why I don't drink unless I'm happy for the most part.

(Also, Mccab = macabre, right?)

chaospersonified:

--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 11 Jun 2015, 10:00 ---Perhaps a bit Mccab, but I've always wondered at the idea of alcohol making people not care or feel better. One of the reasons I don't drink much anymore
is alcohol just amplified whatever I was feeling inside. It never cancelled out the depressive feeings, just made them 10x worse.

--- End quote ---

It does both, in my experience, depending on the quantity I drink, and how I already feel going in. If it's just me and a bottle of whiskey, alone with my thoughts, it's terrible, but give me things to do, something to write on, or a people to talk to, I'm suddenly a happy drunk. The depression hits in the morning, when you're left alone again with the sense you're lesser than other people because you needed alcohol to be happy for a few hours.

That's the morning after, though; that's hell on just about everyone. While you're drunk, it just comes down to your brain's chemistry, I think. Are you a happy, angry, mopey drunk, and you seem to be a sad one.

chaospersonified:
Alcohol is literally a depressant, it just slows down the things that make some people sad, and offers an escape from the daily reality of neurotic overthinking for those of us with that issue.

emilygrrl:

--- Quote from: Wildroses on 11 Jun 2015, 03:55 ---Gah. There are too many possibilities for that last line. Does Faye finally understand her Dad because he was an alcoholic or because he decided death was less painful alternative to life? Roll on Friday.

I'm inclined to think the latter as Faye and her mother's confusion about why he killed himself seemed genuine, but there is always the possibility of denial.

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I got the impression it was both. I think she just realized her dad was an alcoholic (remember him sneaking around with his drinks? His shared "secret" with Faye?), and simultaneously realized why he committed suicide.

...as for Faye's mom, she may have been aware that her husband had a problem with drinking (hence her discouraging him from doing so), but have genuinely not realized he was an alcoholic. Either that, or was in denial.

Legasher:
I'm sorry for posting before lurking for a while, but I only found this forum because I wanted to find an explanation. I found all the posts from the day she fell of the wagon saying "This fits an alcoholic/this doesn't" but it still, after this many comics, feels like a leap to calling her that. She is solving her issue with Angus with alcohol, which is bad, but it's not the only way she solves her problems is it? She can enjoy herself with her friends without it, even though she enjoys it. She got fired from her job for using it as a coping mechanism only days after the breakup, the very first time she had ever had an alcohol related incident at Coffee of Doom. I can fully understand that having done so was bad, but for that one incident to say "clearly you have a problem," seems way off. In this case, Faye says she feels like more of a failure for drinking. Isn't that unnecessary? I've struggled with suicide and depression since I was a kid. About two years ago I had a "breakup" with the church I was immensely involved with in which I've said the exact same lines as Faye about thinking I was stronger than I was and knowing the fault was mine and not theirs.  Last year I got arrested and charged with an alcohol related misdemeanor. But for all the failure I feel, I don't let myself consider drinking a failure, because it's not my only coping mechanism, and it makes it a lot easier to enjoy being around people at all, when I might wander the Pit alone in my apartment without it. I can and have (and have legally been forced to) gone many months without it without feeling like I need it - I just can't go out as much because the social anxiety is too much.

Faye wants to stop the wheel a bit. She's just been through a really hard life event, which also led to an immensely depressing feeling of failure. She needs to learn to cope with this another way, but why is coping with it the wrong way once enough to label her as something for the rest of her life? She's handled alcohol normally plenty of times, why can't she learn to do so again? I understand that addiction is a disease and that addicts can't learn to use it correctly, the question I can't get over is: Besides the past two weeks in comic time, what evidence do we have that this is an Addiction, rather than an Unfortunate Event caused by a poor choice?

Honestly, I was at lunch at work when I read this strip and started crying at the last panel because that's the worst realization when you realize that you understand, and sometimes even agree with someone you know having killed themselves. This one hits really close to home, so I can't really help but see this from her side. I need help understanding the other side.

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