Thread: Personality Disorders, Chicken or Egg?
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Old 12-18-2011, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by nicam View Post
Do you guys agree alcoholism/addiction is a symptom of a personality disorder in most cases?
No. Because like L2L said, I believe alcoholism/addiction is a disease is and of itself.

I'm not alcoholic because I'm bipolar any more than I'm alcoholic because I'm diabetic, have kidney disease or have a potential cancerous protein in my blood.

Now I may chose to drink as a way to cope with one of those other diseases but that does not mean that they caused my alcoholism.

I am simply an alcoholic and they are all seperate diseases that I happen to have.

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