A topic close to my heart, my father is an alcoholic. I've heard it and drug addiction described as many things such as "a demon" but when people describe it as an 'illness' it angers me. Firstly I'd like you to understand that I'm not so close minded to the fact that alcoholics and drug addicts can be mentally ill, that such dependencies can cause metal illness over a certain amount of abuse and time, or that such mental illnesses can drive people to such addictions.
To further understand my views, a healthy woman who has been diagnosed with breast cancer, never temped such a horrid thing to happen, compared to someone that knows the risks but continues to do so with no regards to themselves nor others around them. I maybe strongly opinionated but it is nothing more than selfish, there is help out there - the addict needs to be the one who wants it. I'd like nothing more than for such selfish people to look at the bigger picture here, they don't have an illness, they have an addiction.
I guess its fair to say that I have no more respect for such people than they do for themselves, if they choose to be selfish, they are the only one's that can help themselves. You reap what you sew.
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