Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

Question by barbaro_strong: People call it alcoholism, I call it normalism?
So, why is there a problem?

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Answer by Taytay
Maybe with a word like ‘normalism’ you should reevaluate your life choices and the effects it has on your brain.

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Question by hello: Should I call my mother’s primary doc to tell him to check my mom into rehab for alcoholism?
She has been before but only for about 2 weeks and unsuccessful.
When she is drunk she tells us she wants to go to rehab but when she is sober she avoids the question. She also has anxiety disorder and with her phobias on high speed she has been drinking more and more and doesnt eat and looks so sick. She also smokes 2 packs a day. Her psychiatrist of many years is a pill pusher and avoids the fact that she is a non-compliant patient. Right now she takes inderal every once in a while and zoloft every day cause she knows she is VERY depressed. But she is drinking SOOO much. HELP! I want to call the primary doctor cause he doesnt know she is a severe alcoholic!

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Answer by AmitKu
If she does not admit she has a problem, no amount of help you want to get her will make a significant difference.

You can try calling her doctor for advice, or even organize an intervention. Maybe get her to change her psychiatrist?

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Malaria is a disease; alcoholism is a behavior.

If you have Aids and you stop having sex, Aids will still be in your system. If you are an alcoholic and you stop drinking, alcohol will no longer be in your system.

Besides that, most diseases have medication to treat the disease. What do you do to treat alcoholism, take medication? No, you stop drinking, that’s how.

A word that is commonly found in the definition of disease is “involuntary”. But when you drink alcohol, that is voluntary, not involuntary!

I also believe that many alcoholics will say that they have a disease because that takes some of the responsibility off them so they don’t have to be responsible for their actions.

What do you think?