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0 pointszweep6y ago0 comments

It's called high-functioning addiction and there are tens of millions of such people (mostly addicted to alcohol).

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Or benzodiazepines and prescription painkillers. People switch to heroin when they run out of money.

I had heard high functioning is a misnomer. They may have one area of focus they can succeed under some definition, but the overall quality of life and relationships is very poor.

Marsymars6y ago

My understanding was that "high functioning" is relative to what is essentially "non functioning", where the person is unable to keep up even the semblance of a normal life.

th0ma56y ago

Yes yes... But not anywhere near normal functioning.

th0ma56y ago

Must be the alcoholics hitting the down arrow :P Here is a great article https://www.nytimes.com./2009/05/05/health/05brod.html ...

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unlinked_dll6y ago

Or benzodiazepines and prescription painkillers. People switch to heroin when they run out of money.

th0ma56y ago

I had heard high functioning is a misnomer. They may have one area of focus they can succeed under some definition, but the overall quality of life and relationships is very poor.

Marsymars6y ago

My understanding was that "high functioning" is relative to what is essentially "non functioning", where the person is unable to keep up even the semblance of a normal life.

th0ma56y ago

Yes yes... But not anywhere near normal functioning.

th0ma56y ago

Must be the alcoholics hitting the down arrow :P Here is a great article https://www.nytimes.com./2009/05/05/health/05brod.html ...

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