Originally Posted by
anattaboy 
The way I drank in the end was against my moral code is all I was saying.
True there, I acted in ways that are against my core principles - lying, sneaking, hiding things, ditching responsibility. Does that make me immoral? Obviously not since my core principles abhor this behavior. Does it mean that addiction changes our brains in medically testable ways, and to some extent changes us into different people with different values and characters? Yup. Does it mean we're powerless to change it? No, but it can be really really hard since the thinking rational parts of our brains, **us**, get increasingly clouded by all this other stuff revolving around feeding the reptile.
Originally Posted by
silentrun I would not identify myself as an alcoholic anymore. At first it was helpful because I needed to get what was going on and that is a great way to communicate it. Now it is just another time I let delusion get the better of me. Fool me once. ..
I don't either, because I haven't drank a drop in years and there isn't even any PAWS left in me.