Originally Posted by
onlythetruth 
I definitely had some dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors before I began drinking, but I was absolutely not an alcoholic. Alcoholism is an addiction to alcohol, and by definition one cannot be addicted to something one has never ingested.
OTT
Exactly! To think otherwise is like going off into the strange space in my mind where I'm the mayor of the city called Lala Trippyout...LOL. Where the effects come before the cause
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