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Brad H -> RE: Around the NFL (1/9/2017 6:30:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Todd M
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ORIGINAL: Tim Cady
It's a spiritual health thing. Once a person has crossed the line of addiction, they need an uncomplicated path to extended sobriety. First it takes about 12 to 18 months of sobriety for the brain to heal. Then another 2-5 years for the emotional development that has been stunted by the substance abuse. He doesn't want to make these stupid choices, anymore than Johnny Football. All evidence appears that they have the chaos that comes with addiction. Addiction is not a moral failing it is a disease. A disease of Choice. When and addict/alcoholic is under the influence or even pre-occupied with their next opportunity to use, they are unable to make a healthy choice. Relapse and bad behavior is a symptom of the disease. It becomes a survival instinct (I need my substance of choice in the next 5 minutes or I will not survive this moment.
(or I like to say substance of no choice, the substance where as soon as I take I have no ability to make the correct choice)
I'm not sure I'll ever get this and that's ok I guess. You say 'A disease of choice' - and I find it interesting that it is the only disease you can choose to stop having. Although I've seen it stated on this board that you still have the disease even after you stop abusing your drug of choice so that further complicates things to me. Every time someone stops abusing it's a choice. Every day you continue your sobriety - it's a choice. Un-disease like in every fashion to me. Then, if we're arguing that you will always have the disease - you're saying you can choose to not be symptomatic by choice?
Like I said - I might never get it. If tackling it like a disease helps people recover - then my opinion doesn't really matter...but again, it all seems very much not like a disease in any fashion to me. Cause you can't just choose away any other disease - or just choose to not suffer the symptoms of any other disease.
As a guy with a little experience in this field, I guard against calling it one thing or another. Although the problems that drinking can cause are similar in most (DUI, lost job, broken home, etc...), the way they are dealt with can be very personal. What I do to stay sober could be radically different from the next. In addition, the depths that one goes to before getting sober can also be radically different from person-to-person. Everybody ticks a little differently.
It isn't so much about the choice of not to drink as it is about recognizing you have a problem and what you want to do once you come to the realization.
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