High-Functioning Doesn't Mean Fine | Tim’s Naked Life | EP 914

About this episode

Tim Knapp shares his honest journey through high-functioning alcoholism and the insights he gained from his experiences in addiction recovery.

Is your life mostly intact — job fine, marriage okay, responsibilities covered — and yet you're drinking every single night and can't quite picture stopping? That's exactly where Tim Knapp was for years, and he was also, at the same time, one of the people other people called in a crisis. He spent over a decade working inside addiction recovery programs, walking men out of homelessness and incarceration, understanding the neuroscience of dependency from the inside out. High-functioning doesn't mean fine, and Tim's story is one of the most honest, clear-eyed accounts of what it actually looks like when the two things are true at once. Tim and Coach Cole discuss: Growing up in small-town Oklahoma and discovering the buzz at age 12 — including a homemade raisin wine operation that launched a decade-long love affair with the altered state Why Tim loved the buzz itself more than the taste, and how that distinction became the key to his freedom Working at the Bowery Mission in New York City while his own drinking quietly escalated in the background The painful intersection of conscious and subconscious mind: knowing something is hurting you and still wanting it anyway How reading This…

People in this episode

Host: Annie Grace

Guest: Tim Knapp

Topics covered

• addiction recovery
• high-functioning alcoholism
• personal stories
• neuroscience of dependency
• mental health
• self-improvement

Keywords

• high-functioning
• alcoholism
• addiction
• recovery
• neuroscience
• mental health
• self-help
• This Naked Mind

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bowery Mission, This Naked Mind

Places: Oklahoma, New York City

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