Severe Drunk

Kim grew up in a "beautiful suburb" as an only child of a "severe" alcoholic father. She says he was drunk daily. She remembers as a child telling her father that their lives would be okay if he didn't keep drinking. But in her early teens, she began drinking herself. Kim would steal booze from her friend's parents' liquor cabinet at a party; she became so intoxicated she couldn't go home. From that moment, she had a new favorite activity. It made her feel less uncomfortable in her own skin. It was a relief of emotion – and she kept chasing it. Soon she needed the alcohol just to have the courage to leave the house.