Reply #29: when it hits -ism it is then a disease. [View All]

[NuttyFluffers]

some people are predisposed to picking up this disease more than others (just like heart disease, diabetes, etc). some, who are not predisposed, can practice real hard and develop an abusive relationship with alcohol, which will rapidly devolve into the disease alcoholism. perhaps some conflate this brief moment of choosing to binge in some individuals as the primacy of conscious choice, but extrapolating it therefore to mean all alcoholism is a conscious choice is erroneous.

just like depression is a real disease, but is primarily a psychological one with physical symptoms, as is alcoholism is a psychological disease which produce physical symptoms. later alcoholism has the added bonus of giving physical diseases ontop of that, such as 'wet brain', cirrhosis, etc.

the victims of this disease rarely fair well until drastic and lasting life changes are made.