According to Hamilton B. in Getting Started in AA (Hazelden 1995), a dry drunk is a “condition characterized by a return to alcoholic thinking and behavior even though the alcoholic has not yet returned to drinking”. Some common character traits for un-recovered alcoholics are fault-finding, blaming others for everything, grandiosity, self-centeredness and manipulating or trying to control others. These are mental aberrations and are only one element in their many-faceted disease. They are not at fault.
If you could read this, you wouldn’t even know it applied to you.
