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| Topic | I think I'm an alcoholic now |
| Funkdamental 01/23/18 12:00:03 AM #43: | OhhhJa posted... Funkdamental posted...Zangulus posted...If you question it, youre not an alcoholic. I get the feeling he was suggesting that only alcoholics who are in denial are genuine alcoholics and that if you're conscious you have a problem, you're not really very far down that road. If so, that'd be absurd -- it implies that everyone who's ever gone to an AA meeting isn't really an alcoholic! Yeah, I'd agree there's a strong reluctance to admit to real problems with alcohol: there's a sense of shame about it. I think in part it's because alcohol is a legally and socially accepted drug and masculine identity is often bound up with a hard-drinking culture: you're supposed to drink heavily and often, you're supposed to get pissed out of your head, you're supposed to love it; and if you can't keep it under control(?!) like other men, then you fail at being a man. It's an admission of weakness. In a way, I think, it can be just as hard to admit to yourself and to other people that you're an alcoholic as it is to admit that you're an heroin addict. Heroin has this almost mythic image as an addictive substance that instantly enslaves every user -- you're almost supposed to be an addict if you use heroin; whereas you're not supposed to be an addict to alcohol, because it's most people's favourite everyday recreational drug. --- Slaughterhouse 5 Cattle 0 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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