I don't know if I was born with this issue, as the question "Is there alcoholism in your family?" does not help - I'm Irish- there's alcoholism in ALL Irish families!
But I tried therapy, thinking I could get to the "core issue"; the thing that made me want to be intoxicated all the time.
Well, there are quite a few "core issues", as it happens but acknowledging and facing them did not lessen my desire to drink.
I don't buy the disease model, I don't buy that I have no control and I don't buy that I'm some sort of spiritual cripple.
All I know is that I find it too hard to stop when I start.
So nowadays, I don't start.