Originally Posted by
Pathwaytofree 
How does an alcoholic avoid being mis diagnosed?
You don't really "diagnose" alcoholism - you accept it. I tried desperately to find out WHY i was an alcoholic for years - decades really. I debated it it exhaustively like you are doing here and tried to find any possible logical explanation for it. But at the end of the day what I was really looking for was a FIX for it. If I could find out why I was an alcoholic, logically I could fix whatever that problem is and return to drinking normally, right?
For me I simply had to accept that I AM an alcoholic. It's not fair, it's not logical, and it's not fun to accept - but it was the only possible solution for me.