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10-03-2010, 06:52 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sailorjohn

My alcoholism turned out to be merely a symptom of all of those underlying problems.

I think you may mean that your consumption of alcohol was merely a symptom of an underlying problem - alcoholism.

Alcoholism - the 3-parts (spiritual, mental and physical) are the root of all those other "issues" in our lives. Fix an issue but don't treat the physical/spiritual/mental problem (don't treat the alcoholism) and a new issue will pop up to take it's place. The "problems" in our lives are the manifestation of alcoholism. Alcoholics treat the problems with excessive drinking.... but the problems are not the source. AlcoholISM is the source.

So sure, we drank over the issues........but we drank when there were NO issues.......lots of issues........big issues.....small issues.....etc. We drank because we are alcoholics suffering from alcoholism. I'm still an alcoholic, but I don't suffer under alcoholism any longer.