Why Did Kavanaugh Drink So Much In High School And College?

Here's my short hypothesis:

Kavanaugh was an only child of two well-off and well-connected Washington insiders.  His mother was a judge - and he talked about her at length at his confirmation hearing.  He didn't talk so much about his father, who, according to the New York Times in a long July 2018 bio of Kavanaugh, was

".  .  . a top lobbyist for the cosmetics industry, courting Congress and combating regulations from the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies. (Among his hires for legal work: John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief justice.)
In current parlance, as an old friend put it, the elder Mr. Kavanaugh and his associates were “swamp creatures,” using money and connections to fend off demands for safer products and greater transparency about ingredients. He was a golf partner of Tip O’Neill, the longtime Democratic House speaker, who weighed in to support Martha Kavanaugh’s nomination to a judgeship. He was paid $13 million, including his retirement package, in 2005, his last year at the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Fragrance Association, records show."

So the key thing that triggered this post was Kavanaugh's answer to Sen. Whitehouse, who asked him about whether his 'ralphing' was related to alcohol:

"Senator, I was at the top of my class academically, busted my butt in school. Captain of the varsity basketball team. Got in Yale College. When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. Worked my tail off."(from The Atlantic)

I'm guessing that Brett Kavanaugh felt a lot of parental expectation on his shoulders. He doesn't tell us how much he enjoyed his academics or his basketball or his football.  Rather he tells us "I busted my butt in school."  "Worked my tail off."  This particular quote doesn't include his volunteer work or his weekly mass attendance.  

Aside from the fact that his response doesn't answer Whitehouse's question, it does seem to raise the question, why did he work so hard?  Why did he have to be on both the football team and the basketball team?  Why did he have to be top of his class?  

What this response of Kavanaugh says to me is this:  Brett Kavanaugh was under a lot of pressure to excel, to create a record that would get him into the best schools, and for some reason, Brett was compelled to meet those expectations.  His parents didn't have other kids to hang their hopes on so all pressure was on Brett.  And we don't know how much time they spent with him.  The Country Club seems to have been an important place for his father's business - playing golf with those he needed to persuade to keep the regulations off the cosmetics industry. 

And with all that pressure, getting really drunk on weekends would be an easy way to release it.   And then there's all the anger he's reported to have expressed when drunk and which he displayed for us at the hearing.  He couldn't, apparently, rebel against his parents, so he lashed out at others.  He had a lot of pressure and a lot of anger.  Beer was his refuge.

I would further add that his self-image of a good person clearly reflects the standards he thinks his parents wanted him to be - a judge (for his mom) and an inside player  (for his dad.)   He's pretty much fulfilled all his professional goals, and now he sees this Supreme Court position as his well deserved right for all his hard work.  

And it doesn't seem like his less admirable behaviors - like the drinking and alleged sexual aggression - have ever gotten him into trouble.  His privileged status seems to have made him immune from all that.  

Until now.  And when you are used to always getting what you want, you begin to assume you are entitled to everything you want.  

One thing I haven't seen mentioned much is his current drinking habit.  How much does he drink now and how often does he become a belligerent drunk?