i think pitiful functioning alcoholic is the phrase? but he's got spunk and is out there doing his best to live a semi adjusted life by being the most social human possible. always out, always joking, always the center of attention, always acting as the little voice in his friends head telling them to do the worst thing. life is easier that way. being simple is boring. being simple means him having to do the exercises his therapist gives him and coming to terms with that almost half a decade later he still won't forgive himself for not being at the hospital when his daughter died. but when all the good times and hard living catch up to him, shit quickly goes sour and he becomes an aggressive, anxious, misanthropic dumpster fire. there's no in between, living in the extremes is his only way to function these days.