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On 5/29/2014 hckynut said:

Do you know any real-life Jekyll and Hyde types?

Yes, met many of them during my lifetime. Used to run with a guy when I was in my young to mid 20's that was exactly this in real life. I remember one night we were at our regular pub and a few of us wanted to go "hunting for ahem". He was driving and my car was parked at the pub's lot.

Anyways this guy starts driving like a nut and this is not how he drives when completely unintoxicated. As soon as I realized he had turned into the "bad side", which he didn't even resemble when I decided to get in his car with him. The first time he stopped at a red light I got out of the car and told him "see ya". I walked over 2 miles back to my car at the pub and that was the last time I ever got into a car that he was driving, at any time of the day or night.

Other stories I could tell about many others in the myriad of house and barn parties I frequented during my younger days, but some of them are just to brutal and ugly for me to want to even mention them on this forum that is predominantly visited by the better fair gender.

[Mama Mia]

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[NoelSeven]

On 5/29/2014 Mama Mia said:

Yes, I did. My Dad who was the apple of my eye when I was little, sat on his lap when he came from work, just idolized him' He would drink and come home late and they would scream at each other, and I would beg them to stop.

My Mom died of BC when I was twelve, and he was forty years old. He was very good looking, wealthy, and a good catch for all the women when he went to the bars. One finally snagged him, and his drinking became worse. He joined AA and them became the Jekyl at times. When I was sixteen he slapped me across the face so hard that I staggared.

That was the end of the love. In my grown up days he slapped me across the face, in front of my then DH one time, in his fury. Then the same three more times in my life. I forgave him, but it was never the same after that. I didn't live near him after I married. He became so terrible I didn't want to be around him.

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((((( Mama Mia )))))

I'm so sorry you had to go through that What painful memories, and you had to deal with all of it on top of losing your mother. You are strong and brave.

[Cakers1]

On 5/28/2014 NoelSeven said:

On 5/28/2014 tansy said: I've known a few but it was always related to a bottle of vodka.

You nailed it.

Jekyll and Hyde was written about alcoholism.

Not quite. Stevenson based J&H on the real-life Deacon Brodie. Stevenson never met him (his family actually had furniture made by Brodie) since Brodie was from a prior centruy. But Stevenson was known to adopt the "dress style of Brodie" and researched Brodie's darker side through public records (Brodie was hanged).

Stevenson's addiction to opium, alcohol, and other drug mixtures stemmed from his chronic lung illness.

While it is true that J&H is used as a study in addiction, the addiction in of itself is not the alcohol (the potion is never really identified) but Hyde, himself, is the addiction - the spiralling down of Jekyll who cannot overcome his own darker self as Hyde. Jekyll became addicted to his darker side. One could say that this represents addiction but an addiction to a dark personality more than a substance addiction.

[Mama Mia]

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[Luv2Decorate]

Yes, I have encountered people like the OP described. Mean to kids and a total svck up to their parents. It all didn't go down until all of the kids banned together and started to speak up. I think it's a mental illness.

[NoelSeven]

On 5/29/2014 Cakers1 said:

On 5/28/2014 NoelSeven said:

On 5/28/2014 tansy said: I've known a few but it was always related to a bottle of vodka.

You nailed it.

Jekyll and Hyde was written about alcoholism.

Not quite. Stevenson based J&H on the real-life Deacon Brodie. Stevenson never met him (his family actually had furniture made by Brodie) since Brodie was from a prior centruy. But Stevenson was known to adopt the "dress style of Brodie" and researched Brodie's darker side through public records (Brodie was hanged).

Stevenson's addiction to opium, alcohol, and other drug mixtures stemmed from his chronic lung illness.

While it is true that J&H is used as a study in addiction, the addiction in of itself is not the alcohol (the potion is never really identified) but Hyde, himself, is the addiction - the spiralling down of Jekyll who cannot overcome his own darker self as Hyde. Jekyll became addicted to his darker side. One could say that this represents addiction but an addiction to a dark personality more than a substance addiction.

We'll have to get that out to those universities using it as a primer for substance abuse.

[Luv2Decorate]

On 5/29/2014 Mama Mia said:

Yes, I did. My Dad who was the apple of my eye when I was little, sat on his lap when he came from work, just idolized him' He would drink and come home late and they would scream at each other, and I would beg them to stop.

My Mom died of BC when I was twelve, and he was forty years old. He was very good looking, wealthy, and a good catch for all the women when he went to the bars. One finally snagged him, and his drinking became worse. He joined AA and them became the Jekyl at times. When I was sixteen he slapped me across the face so hard that I staggared.

That was the end of the love. In my grown up days he slapped me across the face, in front of my then DH one time, in his fury. Then the same three more times in my life. I forgave him, but it was never the same after that. I didn't live near him after I married. He became so terrible I didn't want to be around him.

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That's awful. What did your husband do when your dad slapped you? I know my husband would have gone ballistic. I shutter to think about it.

[Cakers1]

On 5/29/2014 NoelSeven said:

On 5/29/2014 Cakers1 said:

On 5/28/2014 NoelSeven said:

On 5/28/2014 tansy said: I've known a few but it was always related to a bottle of vodka.

You nailed it.

Jekyll and Hyde was written about alcoholism.

Not quite. Stevenson based J&H on the real-life Deacon Brodie. Stevenson never met him (his family actually had furniture made by Brodie) since Brodie was from a prior centruy. But Stevenson was known to adopt the "dress style of Brodie" and researched Brodie's darker side through public records (Brodie was hanged).

Stevenson's addiction to opium, alcohol, and other drug mixtures stemmed from his chronic lung illness.

While it is true that J&H is used as a study in addiction, the addiction in of itself is not the alcohol (the potion is never really identified) but Hyde, himself, is the addiction - the spiralling down of Jekyll who cannot overcome his own darker self as Hyde. Jekyll became addicted to his darker side. One could say that this represents addiction but an addiction to a dark personality more than a substance addiction.

We'll have to get that out to those universities using it as a primer for substance abuse.

I stated that J&H is used as a study in addiction. In fact, it was used in my grad school. The "isms" of the alcoholic parallel the addiction of Dr. Jekyll to his addiction to his darker side. That was my point - and one used in a research paper for Abnormal Psych.

[QueenDanceALot]

On 5/29/2014 Cakers1 said:

On 5/28/2014 NoelSeven said:

On 5/28/2014 tansy said: I've known a few but it was always related to a bottle of vodka.

You nailed it.

Jekyll and Hyde was written about alcoholism.

Not quite. Stevenson based J&H on the real-life Deacon Brodie. Stevenson never met him (his family actually had furniture made by Brodie) since Brodie was from a prior centruy. But Stevenson was known to adopt the "dress style of Brodie" and researched Brodie's darker side through public records (Brodie was hanged).

Stevenson's addiction to opium, alcohol, and other drug mixtures stemmed from his chronic lung illness.

While it is true that J&H is used as a study in addiction, the addiction in of itself is not the alcohol (the potion is never really identified) but Hyde, himself, is the addiction - the spiralling down of Jekyll who cannOne could say that this represents addiction but an addiction to a dark personality mot overcome his own darker self as Hyde. Jekyll became addicted to his darker side. ore than a substance addiction.

Which is probably why many psychologists refer to Sociopaths and Psychopaths as Jekyll and Hyde personalities.