My Name Is Lorn And My Dad Was An Alcoholic

On 1 April last year, I received a phone call to tell me that my dad had died from an alcohol-related incident.Dad had been an alcoholic for most of my life. As a child growing up, we used to say things like “Dad likes a drink” or “sometimes Dad drinks a bit too much”. We would play down the seriousness of his illness by normalising his behaviour because we ourselves didn’t understand it or know where to turn to for help. However, as we got older it became worse and