Tales of a Frustrated Recovering Alcoholic

Tris Mamone
4 min readMar 9, 2019
A Glass of Bourbon Whiskey” by ctj71081 / CC BY-SA 2.0

I’ve relapsed four times during my sixteen-month recovery process. The most recent one happened a few days ago. My autistic meltdowns were getting more frequent, I’ve been having crazy thoughts race through my brain nonstop, and I’ve been having more hyperarousal episodes lately. It all came to a head Thursday when I decided to get a fifth of Evan Williams on my way home from my local PFLAG group’s monthly meeting…

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Tris Mamone

LGBTQ News Columnist and Journalist. They/them. Bylines: Splice Today, Rewire, Swell, HuffPost, INTO, etc. trismamone@gmail.com