09-03-2019, 11:04 AM
(08-30-2019, 05:35 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I don't particularly care for calling it a disease.
I know there are people who are genetically predisposed to be easier to become addicted, but I think it gives some people a bit too much sympathy/too much of an out by calling it a disease. It makes it seem like drunks can't help but beat their family because it's a disease, gambling addicts can't help but become massively in debt because it's a disease.
AA, NA, etc don't give you some kind of miracle cure. It's a matter of desire, willpower, and structure to be "cured". You can't willpower and structure away cancer or ALS. Those are proper diseases.
Is depression a disease?
