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The Unseen Struggles of Functional Alcoholics #addictionrecovery #gettingsober #sobercurious

5 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Amber Hollingsworth. This content was uploaded by Amber Hollingsworth. This is a YouTube video titled "The Unseen Struggles of Functional Alcoholics #addictionrecovery #gettingsober #sobercurious" (created/posted 2025-09-05). The excerpt is a monologue by Amber Hollingsworth in which she describes the internal experience of addiction and functional alcoholism — a "roller coaster" of emotions including stress, exhaustion, desperation, self-loathing, and resentment — and explains how addiction consumes substantial time and mental energy even when a person appears outwardly functional. The content appears intended for addiction recovery awareness and education.

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Let's talk about what it looks like on, what it feels like on the inside of a person struggling with this. There's this roller coaster of emotions. It's a combination of stress, exhaustion, desperation, self-loathing, and resentment. Those are the biggies. Let's, so let's break those down and pull them apart a little bit. When you have an addiction, it's not about what or how much you're using. It's about how much you are thinking about it. What happens is, as this is building, it takes a lot of time and energy planning on how to, especially when you're functional, because you got to get away with it and you got to keep your act going. So the amount of energy and effort that goes into it, which other people can't see on the outside, is enormous.