DRINKING A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

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Drinking a Love Story by Caroline Knapp

Drinking a love story by Caroline describes a life of an alcoholic daughter of rich parents . Excessive wealth , love and carelessness from her parents caused her to adopt life threatening habits . She later on started consuming alcohol . She indulged in alcoholism so much that her life was completely devastated . Caroline describes in details the bad outcomes of excessive consumption of alcohol . One third of alcoholics are women . Every day she consumed more and

more alcohol and that was causing more damage to her life

Caroline Knapp , a psychotherapist , narrates a trajectory life of an alcoholic daughter

During Dream world stage , since her adolescence she had problems with drinking . She starts consuming alchol in her early teens and became a regular drinker by the age of sixteen . Her father was a psychoanalyst and a drinker himself who had affairs with several women . Her mother wasn 't able to give attention to her daughter as she was already sufferring from breast cancer . She was born in a prosperous family and her twin sister became a physician . However , Knapp became extremely addictive to alcohol

In disillusionment stage , all the symtptoms of alcoholism started appearing her as she approached her 20s . She also started on unrealistic sex relationship with several men . This added to her unhealthy conditon .During misery stage her thoughts and imaginations were immersed in a bottle of alcohol . A daughter of well-to-do family had a love affair with alcohol that ruined her entire life . The story narrates a true life image of an alcoholic and a warning for those who had started out habit of drinking

During her enlightment stage she sometimes realized that this habit has completely ruined her life . She struggles to find out contact with those who are even more alcoholic than her , in to comfort her that she 's not the alone . Her parents were also alcoholics . However , she tries to come-up with this problem by improving her self-image and recovery from this state

At the same time Meg 's story - her shyness and shame and confusion -is achingly familiar . Bad , semi-consensual drunken sex : so many women I know did this . So many still do . At least one quarter of the 17 ,592 students surveyed in a 1995 Harvard School of Public Health study on campus drinking said they had suffered an unwanted sexual advance as a result of drinking that same year , a Columbia University study reported that alcohol plays a role in ninety percent of rapes on college campuses (Knapp

In her mid 20s she seeked help with psychotherapist to solve her problems with eating . Because of her excessive consumption of alcohol she lost her apetite , a condition called anorexia . However , duirng her treatment she kept on drinking . Regular consumption of alcohol made her very distressed and she gradually started realizing the cause of her unhappiness

During mutual respect stage , her both parents died of cancer . Loss of...