Kelley Kitley
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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had tried to manage and control my drinking almost my entire drinking career, as I say.
And as a mom of four children, my drinking changed throughout the trajectory from binge drinking to drinking more regularly, as I called it, around the witching hour of raising children.
And so the progression changed and the way that I drank changed.
And I have been a clinical social worker for 25 years, and I didn't think I qualified as somebody who had a drinking problem.
And I recognized through my research and my schooling that alcohol use is really along the spectrum.
And we can talk about diagnoses and labels, but also it's important to look at alcohol use from a whole health perspective.
And you are in recovery now.
I am.
I will celebrate 13 years next month.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
How do I know?
Terri, I took that questionnaire so many times and oftentimes we overlook some of the real seriousness of it because one of the components of drinking is denial at times and sometimes we minimize our drinking.
But the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders qualifies alcohol use disorder if somebody has increased tolerance, if they have interruption in relationships or jobs, if they are increasing tolerance, if they're not able to stop on their own.
And oftentimes we use these qualifiers of, did you get a
DUI.
Did you lose your job?
Did you lose your family?
But really, it's when alcohol becomes a disruption in daily living.
That can be a very
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