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First off, apologies for the decidedly male metaphor here. Gut Punch would work as well, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it. The days of the Gut Punch are long over, any way; few people have been randomly socked in the midsection, but guys all around the world still know what a good racking will do.

Anyone who has partaken in playground violence understands the equalizer that is the Kick in the Nads. No matter how tough that bully is, anyone else can take him down with one well-placed Buster Brown.

I thought that if I quit drinking I'd let everyone down. They'd miss me. The bar wouldn't be the same without One of the Boys, would it?

In adult life, there are events that are unforeseen and shattering to the psyche. Usually it's the death of a loved one or a child, but it can also be financial disaster or any number of things. The event is so traumatic that it renders the eventee helpless and incapable of dealing with the rest of life. This is when a lot of people cross the line from having had a drink or a drug to becoming full-blown addicts.

Many addicts grew their dependence over a lifetime of poor emotional and social choices. The Nad Kick takes people who were otherwise successful in life and reduces them quickly. The Kickee's social group enables the bad behavior, since he or she seems to deserve to get drunk or high. No one blames him for a bender or prolonged depression. But the danger with dealing with a Nad Kick by using drugs and alcohol is that the depression sometimes sticks.

Ever have someone tell you, “Don't make a face like that, it might stay that way?” Or were you told that if someone slapped you on the back while you made a nasty face it would stick? Consider your depression the nasty face and a drug bender that slap on the back.

The physical part of your addiction will make an alliance with your misery; as long as it's okay for you to drink when you're miserable, then the part of you that wants the vice will keep you miserable so you keep self-medicating. Before too long, your physical addiction will be strongly tied into a dark emotional state.

It's hard for the Kickees in 12 Step. Most of the Steppers can't point to a specific incident to relate to why they started drinking. The Kickee can. The easy thing to feel is an addict's superiority complex. The others don't seem to have a real reason to be drinking; they seem to have been born addicts. The only bad things that ever happened to them were of their own design. Life for the Kickee was going great until The Event.