Originally Posted by
RobbyRobot 
For me, alcoholism is not wholly defined as a spiritual malady exactly. I'm more inline with Jung's view, as expressed below.
Even in Jung's view, it wouldn't be a disease or illness without changing the definitions of the words, and it certainly wouldn't be a permanent state of affairs. It seems that Jung views alcoholism as one form of unhealthy spiritual seeking, which, if true, could be corrected. To continue to define oneself as alcoholic or sick after said correction seems counterproductive.
I suppose I just don't see the benefit of defining yourself as having an ineradicable alcoholic illness. You concede that it is fairly characterized as AV.