This review comes with a trigger warning for discussion of alcoholism. It is impossible for me to describe the abject shame and humiliation that comes with being in active alcoholism. The “big book”, what we call the book Alcoholics Anonymous, which is the main textbook of AA, calls it “pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization”, and that’s about right in my experience. But it’s hard to describe the day to day feeling of that helplessness and demoralization, especially if you’re trying to describe it to someone who […]