Kelley Kitley

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444 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 28 May

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RECOVERable: Mental Health and Addiction Experts Answer Your Questions · Alcohol Addiction Symptoms: Signs You Shouldn't Ignore · 28 May 2026 podcast

consequences in terms of not liking who you are or evaluating some of the things you do when you're drinking, but you're very high functioning and you're running a household and you have a job and you're just going to cocktail hours with coworkers.

All of these things that we have a tendency to kind of evaluate, do I have a problem or not?

And sometimes that comes from who are the people that we are around?

Yep.

And for me, especially having the clinical knowledge and feeling like I didn't fit some of the criteria, it was about putting my blinders on and saying, how does this feel internally?

I think if anybody's questioning their relationship with alcohol, that's a good diagnostic tool.

How is it playing a role in your life?

Is there a family history?

Are you more susceptible to maybe developing some kind of addiction or dependence?

Oh my gosh, the way it's presented, right?

So glamorous.

Yes, in media and in life.

Absolutely.

And so it is really important that we look at it from a different lens, you know, that there are there has been a huge decrease in the amount that people are drinking, especially the younger generation, because.

I believe we're educating and we're offering other tools and coping mechanisms for being a human being in life.

You know, a lot of times people are using alcohol to self-medicate, whether they're feeling depressed and they're trying to elevate their mood perhaps, or they're feeling anxious and they're trying to take the edge off, or they're working through some post-traumatic stress disorder.

A lot of times people are looking to alcohol for symptom relief.

Yes.

And so when I'm working with clients in treatment, sometimes I will ask them, can we remove alcohol from the equation while you are in treatment just so that we can get a clearer picture of what's going on underneath the surface?

That's the internal dialogue we feel and we have with ourself.

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