Dr. Ciara Kelly

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13,071 appearances 57 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard today

Dr. Ciara Kelly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 57 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 10.

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They Mess You Up with Dr. Ciara Kelly and Dr. Richard Hogan · Messy Bits... Functioning Alcoholic · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

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The the person who's the alcoholic may have ring fenced that conversation, that the disclosure in their head. voice-verified

They may have disclosed it when they were vulnerable or drunk or something and now they have sort of sealed it off and may maybe put it away and it's no longer in their head. voice-verified

Or indeed they may have just been voice-verified

trying it at the time. voice-verified

To voice-verified

See how it felt, see how it sounded, perhaps get a little bit of sympathy, perhaps it was even in a mini a manipulation at the time. voice-verified

You don't like addicts do all sorts of things as we know. voice-verified

So we d I don't know what happened before in that relationship that made this person send this and and voice-verified

It's not a it's not beyond the beyonds for an addict to tell one person they're an addict because that person is really good and empathetic and supportive. voice-verified

And then and then and now they get something out of that. voice-verified

The addict does. voice-verified

But they don't tell anybody else and then they can still function and be a an addict or an alcoholic in their own way, but they have a like a little bit of support for themselves that th they've chosen wisely who to deposit that information with because they're not gonna voice-verified

And you're also kind of enabling them. voice-verified

I I not intentionally and all of those things, but you But they're voice-verified

Exactly, allows them to keep functioning. voice-verified

Sometimes the best thing is to say voice-verified

I'm here. voice-verified

But I'm not gonna be fully here like a at your beck and call because I don't think that's helpful for you either. voice-verified

And I hate I I find it really hard voice-verified

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