Buzz Aldrin Opens Up About Alcoholism
Buzz Aldrin Opens Up About Alcoholism
Who knew?
“After retiring from NASA and the Air Force, the longtime military man found himself adrift with no structure in his life. Rather than feeling liberated, Aldrin was tormented by loneliness and uncertainty.
"I realized that I was experiencing the ‘melancholy of things done.’ I had done all that I had ever set out to do," he explains in the new book.
The old fighter pilot was trapped in a death spiral of mental illness and addiction.
"I moved from drinking to depression to heavier drinking to deeper depression," he writes. "I recognized the pattern, but I continually sabotaged my own efforts to do anything about it."”
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