Robert Rickelman was a drunk. For many years, he relied on booze to overcome his intense shyness, but he loathed the coward he’d become. He could not function without booze, and his prospects were bleak.
Following a suicide attempt in 1996, Robert was diagnosed as Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI). He still carries this SMI designation.
Robert has been published in various literary magazines; his story, “Phyllis,” was awarded Inscape Magazine’s 2018 Nonfiction Editors’ Award. He lives in Tucson with his wife, Pat, who has never given up on him.
Robert Rickelman was a drunk. For many years, he relied on booze to overcome his intense shyness, but he loathed the coward he’d become. He could not function without booze, and his prospects were bleak.
Following a suicide attempt in 1996, Robert was diagnosed as Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI). He still carries this SMI designation.
Robert has been published in various literary magazines; his story, “Phyllis,” was awarded Inscape Magazine’s 2018 Nonfiction Editors’ Award. He lives in Tucson with his wife, Pat, who has never given up on him.
Robert Rickelman had suffered from crippling anxiety his entire life. Then, he found his perfect life coach—alcohol. When he drank, he was fearless and unflappable, and comfortable in his own skin. He entered law school and drank his way through three semesters. By then, alcohol had insinuated itself into every aspect of his life, and he...
It was Friday morning, and I’d been out of the intensive care unit since Wednesday. Once again, I’d mixed my psych meds with a fifth of vodka and several beers and wound up back in the ICU, tethered to a ventilator. To my mind, it wasn’t technically a suicide attempt; it was just another case of let’s do this and see what happens.
Since I came off the ventilator and arrived in the psych ward, I’d endured the typical, albeit extremely uncomfortable, symptoms of alcohol detox. For the last few...
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