Tag: Alcoholics

When you grow up in the house of an addict, forced to take on the role of adult as you ‘parent the parent’, your childhood is characterised by chaos, unpredictability, and (lack of) control. When you know that what is happening at home is wrong, that a child should not be in that...

I drank every day for years, and I couldn’t control myself no matter how hard I tried. When I set out to make it through the day sober, I’d give up by sundown. When I told myself that I’d stick to just one drink for the night, I’d end up going through every last drop of alcoh...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger was a major philosophical figure of the Roman Imperial Period. As a Stoic philosopher writing in Latin, Seneca and early Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, among others, made lasting contributions to Stoicism. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius has lo...