” The trauma never goes away, one just comes to live with it “
Alcohol is not a road to recovery. The belief that people can’t recover from trauma is absolute rubbish. It doesn’t just disappear, to recover from trauma a person must recognise that they have trauma and then apply themselves to recover from trauma. Most people haven’t got the intellect and/or determination to try to recover. Trauma is learned behaviour and it can also be unlearned.