Is Alcoholism Really a Disease?
Question by Joshua N: Is Alcoholism really a disease?
Some doctors when asked say, the most simple way to describe it is “a mental obsession that causes a physical compulsion to drink.”
Is a “Mental Obsession” really a diease
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Answer by i wish my name was delilah
it depends on the sircumstances and the reasons why they drink. i personally believe it is a disease, but i do see your view on things.
Answer by lindsay_jo_294
I see it as doctors do. Alcholism is a disease. just as depression. It’s something that takes over your life, body, soul, and mind. People drink for many different reasons to “deal” with pain and it becomes an easy scape goat to “deal” with any and all pain.
I’ve first handedly seen alcholism. I good friend of mine is only 25 yrs old and had been an alcholic since he was 16, he was full blown by 21. Last year we had to call an ambulance b/c he only wighed 80 pounds, couldn’t keep anything down but booze. He’s been sober for almost a year now and only has 33% of his Liver left.
Alcholism, is like cutting, pulling out hair, ocd. It’s something that consumes you and you feel that you can’t survive without it.
My friend, spent 3 weeks in the hospital and it took three months after that for him to stop shaking and walk again. That’s how bad it dwindled his body.
It is something “mental” but in order to solve the problem you must treat it like a disease and get to the root of the issues as to why the person results in drinking the “pain” and normalties of life away.
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