i used to get really ticked when someone would compare alcoholism to a disease such as diabetes....well, i have diabetes. and i don't get arrested for public high glucose levels, or driving under the influence of glucose, or domestic violence because my sugar is too high and i'm p!ssed, or yada, yada, yada.
lol....ooooohhhhh i'd get so bent out of shape about it. i have hundreds of choices to make daily about my diabetes....ones that can help me stay healthy, or ones that can hurt me. i take very good care of myself. it's a choice.
and i would think.....yup alcoholism is a disease. and it should be the most easily curable disease......JUST STOP DRINKING.......bingo....it's gone. no more alcoholism.
and by logic, that should be true.
but......i too think it is an emotional sickness. why else would anyone choose to stay in active alcoholism??????
i can't believe that alcoholics would actually want to be the way they are.