Para Alcoholism

The Seba library treats Para Alcoholism in 8 passages, across 2 authors (including INC , ACA WSO, Organization, Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service).

In the library 8 passages

This transfer mechanism is para-alcoholism, which is detailed in Trait 13 and Trait 14 of The Laundry List. Para-alcoholism is primarily made up of the stored fear and distorted thoughts of the person raised in an alcoholic home.

This passage provides the canonical definition of para-alcoholism as an intergenerational transfer mechanism composed of internalized fear and distorted cognition, entirely independent of alcohol consumption.

INC , ACA WSO, ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, 2012thesis

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Para-alcoholism is a foundational term for the ACA fellowship. The term is an integral part of The Laundry List traits. Trait 13 and Trait 14 specifically detail para-alcoholism.

This passage explicitly designates para-alcoholism as foundational to ACA doctrine and anchors it to the two concluding traits of the Laundry List.

INC , ACA WSO, ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, 2012thesis

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The biochemical surge and cascade of inner ‘drugs’ that accompany these states of distress in this parent can impact children as profoundly as outside substances. Our experience shows that the nondrinking parent’s reaction to these inside drugs affects the children just as the alcoholic’s drinking affects them.

This passage articulates the psychobiological mechanism of para-alcoholism, arguing that the non-drinking parent’s internal affective dysregulation constitutes a form of drugging that damages children equivalently to alcohol.

INC , ACA WSO, ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, 2012thesis

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To understand emotional sobriety, we must first understand emotional intoxication, which is also known as para-alcoholism. Para-alcoholism represents the mannerisms and behaviors we developed by living with an alcoholic or dysfunctional parent.

This passage explicitly equates para-alcoholism with emotional intoxication and positions it as the conceptual inverse of emotional sobriety, the goal of ACA recovery.

Organization, Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service, The twelve steps of adult children steps workbook, 2007thesis

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Alcoholism is a family disease; we became para-alcoholics and took on the characteristics of that disease even though we did not pick up the drink. Para-alcoholics are reactors rather than actors.

This foundational Laundry List text presents the canonical formulation that adult children become para-alcoholics — reactive, disease-carrying individuals — without ever consuming alcohol.

INC , ACA WSO, ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, 2012thesis

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Alcoholism is a family disease; we became para-alcoholics (codependent) and took on the characteristics of that disease even though we did not pick up the drink. Para-alcoholics (codependents) are reactors rather than actors.

This passage from the Step Four worksheet glosses para-alcoholic as synonymous with codependent, embedding the term within the moral inventory framework and linking reactivity to disease transmission.

INC , ACA WSO, ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, 2012supporting

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Even without drugs and alcohol, we can be ‘drunk’ on fear, excitement or pain. We can also be drunk on arguing, gossip, or self-imposed isolation.

This passage extends the para-alcoholism concept into a catalogue of affective and behavioral substitutes for alcohol that sustain the condition of emotional intoxication.

Organization, Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service, The twelve steps of adult children steps workbook, 2007supporting

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