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Peele has been very useful to me on many levels - in his book, he sumerises the patterns of addiction, how the fluctuate, change, and either carry on or go into remission. Remission is the word I had been searching for. I could not carry on doing what I was doing to myself - and so I had to stop. I see drinking now with revulsion, it bought me to my knees (sound familier?).
I never used to like him, but my head was still riddled with biasis that said 'only an alcoholic understands an alcoholic' - when, infact, human behaviour is just that: human behaviour - you can find suffering, worry, fear, isolation, irratic behaviour, in the entire human spectrum. The idea of a mystical, underlying, disease redefines normal human behaviour into someone 'otherly' that only other alkies understand. Not true. Yes he is making money, yes he hasnt had first hand experience of addiction, but he also basis his arguments in strong logic, evidence, and draws on the knowledge of pschology.
Good stuff.
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