Alcoholism

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I also had a period of 8 or 9 months when I had a serious coke habit- that was very bad indeed.

Oh PLEASE don't make me regale you all with the tales of my crackhead days. I got 11 months crackhead tales.

I had the will to stop that. Just sold everything I owned except a motorcycle and a backpack.

Rode off and never looked back.

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Very true, but alcoholism is actually a personality disorder, and they would still display whatever other symptoms and ramifications of that problem. It is not alcohol, or even addiction that is the disorder but a predisposition to lend yourself to addictive behavior. Or moreover some problem, that I beleive real and tangible, that as a side effect causes us to behave in a manner that easily adapts and ritualizes addictive behavior of all kinds. So yes, in a sense you need alcohol to be an alcoholic, but in another you do not.

Preaching to the choir here. It is why I threw obesity in there, it's just another addiction. Same as my pot and nicotine addictions. I can't be a pot head if I didn't smoke pot.

I am not whining or asking for pity. I am calm about things. It is certainly not an excuse. Let me make that clear, that I don't want any less responsibility for my actions because I feel that I have a mental disorder.

That's how it comes across to me when one starts claiming their problems are a "disease", as if they had no physical control over it.

Kudos to the rest of the post Pippy. I think Adrian sucks for commenting on posts he has not read. No one has time to read, debunk and reply to every post here, but if you're gonna comment on one you could at least fuckin' read it.

But that's just me.