Originally Posted by
taplow 
I don't wish this on anyone. It's not like an illness where you can't control it, although it actually probably is an illness where you can't control it. The thing is we think it's within our hands.
Too late...we all have it already :-).
And if you think about it logically ( which is pretty difficult when you are drinking ) - alcoholism is one of the few afflictions that we have the power to change. It's actually 100% "curable" from the standpoint that anyone can stop drinking - and stay stopped - if they truly want to. Our addiction would love us to believe that we see somehow unique in our affliction and "uncurable" - but that's BS and self-pity plain and simple.
You can quit.....you just have to want it enough and do the necessary work to get there.