Originally Posted by
waynetheking 
This disease is not bigger than me. Its staying in the bottle where it belongs. I can't believe I was fooled by this crap for so many years. What a joke alcoholism is. Nothing but a freaking joke.
I'm glad you have the power to stop and stay stopped. As an alcoholic I didn't have that same power so for me, it was absolutely NO joke. It wasn't a sign of weakness, it wasn't lack of willpower... it was the outward manifestation of an illness that was killing me and dragging into my death spiral all the people who mattered to me. For me it was either recover from alcoholism or ruin the lives of the people I cared about and eventually take my own life. To me, that's pretty serious business.