KevinTH KevinTH5



Join Date: Dec 2002



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Re: Is addiction a real thing? Good choice. I have stated most of my opinions in the other thread...just something that is incredibly hard to understand by those who don't actually experience it. It took a lot of discussions and understanding for my fiancé to finally come to terms with my problems with alcohol. For many years she would just get pissed at me and tell me not to drink so much...but that's where the disease comes into play. As the famous Pringles commercial once said "once you pop you can't stop!" I could NOT stop. I don't know how else to explain it. I may stop for a moment but then sneak off and find some alcohol elsewhere. It is an actual feeling in your brain that you NEED to have more. I WISH I just had a self control problem. That would be easier to deal with.



There was a comment made about someone's mother drinking themselves stupid every night. For you having to experience that I am truly sorry. But to say that she just has a self control problem and that addiction is a cop out reads to me as someone that may have some very personal disgruntled feelings towards their mother. Those of which are absolutely none of my business and I won't even get into that. A lot of people feel our parents are supposed to be perfect in every way and not have these kinds of problems. The fact remains that parents are also human and have the same problems and diseases everyone else has. So I can understand that someone who has been watching their mother drink themselves stupid every night may react by just say "get it together! Control yourself!". But until you actually come to terms with the actual disease at hand or experience it as an addict yourself I think it's best to keep that opinion to yourself.