Exploring Alcoholism Through Caroline Knapp’s Memoir

Exploring Alcoholism Through Caroline Knapp’s Memoir

A. What mental illness (es) does the author describe? How does the author describe the experience of having illness? What is like for that person to be mentally ill, in itself?

Caroline Knapp in her memoir Drinking: A Love Story reveals her painful secret of being an alcoholic as she boldly shares her distressing experiences as a highly functioning alcohol addict. To her, like many other alcohol enslaved individuals she describes in her story, alcohol was a toxic love affair that almost cost her life- something she loved more than people and cherished like her life depended on it. Knapp also suffered from anorexia- a food disorder that…