Originally Posted by
TheOnlyDryPaddy 
So does self-identifying as mentally ill, but that doesn't mean that people with mental illness don't have a disease.
I don't view my body's adaptation to the chronic exposure of alcohol as a disease, simply because it was a natural function of the human body. My body did what it had to do to keep me alive in spite of myself, and it would have done the same with arsenic or snake venom. I'm glad my body did this, because otherwise, I would have gone to the hereafter. If you want to cop a disease, though, knock yourself out.