Originally Posted by
jdooner 
Paul - thanks - I appreciate opinions and understand if someone would rather relate to being an alcoholic vs calling themselves an addict. I guess where I get hung up is when its thrown around as facts.
Yep absolutely...seems to grate either way when people present the arguments as facts...me I have to try and get less attached to my opinions and remember just that they work for me
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Edit: Oh and yea, absolutely I find us folks often share the same underlying problems and addictive tendencies. To use AA language, we share a malady, a spiritual problem and on those grounds we can often identify and relate to each other.
I was always told there are three sides to my "ilness"..a physical, mental and a spiritual. That model works for me and I find there are aspects to the physical/mental that I only get in AA...for me I find that to be important for identification at depth.
I'm getting a little more Open-minded on the subject as time goes by, live and let live as they say
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