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At Last! Blackout victims speak!

“I blacked out again this weekend, twice. I’m lucky to be alive.”

Photo of Dr. Donal SweeneyIn graphic and intimate terms victims describe quarrels and physical abuse of loved ones, wild rides and tragic accidents, indiscriminate and unremembered sex, rape, violent crimes, even murder, indeed, all manner of uncharacteristic and unwanted behaviors that are truly destructive, brutish and bizarre.

“My best friend suffered severe bruising on her arms, chest and legs and had four deep bite marks on her leg…I don’t remember doing any of this. What kind of monster do I have living in my body?”

—From the back cover of Cries from the Abyss

Book review by the Santa Barbara News-Press

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Other Comments...

"During a blackout you can do anything, drive, make love, get married and/or kill someone and never know you did it. And that time period can last for days for real!! Get this book!"

"This book is filled with horrendous case histories. They walk and talk, drive and quarrel and get into fights. They are a bloody menace."

"I have blacked out from two glasses of wine. Romantic dinners have turned into nightmares. Weddings attended led to more shame and guilt than a heart should hold."

"Last Saturday night was one of many blackouts I have experienced in 10 years of drinking. Three days later, I am still trying to remember. If my boyfriend hadn't come to the bar to get me that night, I don't know how I would have gotten home or if I would have gotten home. He told me I was lying in the parking lot urinating on myself."

"All I can remember is standing at the bar, then I woke up in a prison cell, bruises all over my body. I'm charged with assaulting a waitress and attempting to kick a cop. I thought I was going crazy till I found this web site."

"In the last two years I have blacked out five times. When I black out I become very sexually promiscuous. I hit on men, women, whoever, something I would never do normally."

"You are the first person I have ever found that truly has saved me from myself. I am scared. I know what it is to wake up in the morning with the feeling that I hurt someone...I had my dad's gun...from his apt....don't know how I got it. I thought I killed him."

"I'm terrified. Please help me."


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