I am a fifty-eight-year-old recovering alcoholic who has been sober for sixteen years. Even when I was drinking, I was able to maintain my career as a producer of television commercials and director of broadcast production at advertising agencies. I was in denial about being an alcoholic. I drank daily to kill whatever I was feeling—whether I considered the feeling good or bad. There’s a line in one of my books: “The only thing worse to an alcoholic than bad fortune is good fortune.” When we have good things happen to us, it’s just as big a trigger for drinking as when something bad happens.