Q&A: What Are Your Thoughts About How Society Caters to People With Self-Inflicted “diseases” Like Alcoholism?
Question by Neo Draven: What are your thoughts about how society caters to people with self-inflicted “diseases” like alcoholism?
Lately, everything is a “disease” or “illness”. You’re not a drunk; you have a disease that makes you drink too much. You’re not an overeater; you have a mental illness that makes you eat way too much. You’re not just a pill-popper; you have a chemical dependency disease.
I feel like our society is cowtowing to weak people, and just making them even weaker. Every time the APA convenes and invents the new diseases for the year, there’s always a new program or drug, ready-made to combat the new illness that was just invented.
This also causes people to make excuses for their vices. An alcoholic who is forced to go to AA meetings is immediately brainwashed and tricked into joining a religious cult that pretends that they don’t support any organized faith (yet, many of the 12 steps are religion-based). An alcoholic is basically being tricked into abandoning one addiction for one that’s much worse and more dangerous.
I feel that people should be accountable for their own actions, but even more importantly, they should be honest with themselves, and self-actualizing. The more tools we give people to not take personal responsibility, the weaker we, as a nation, become.
I also refuse to believe that a self-inflicted addiction or compulsion is a disease. Sorry. That just can’t happen. If you remove the object of addiction from being accessible, BAM! No more addiction. There’s the “cure” for your “disease”.
So, specifically regarding things like ADHD, Alcoholism, most forms of behavioral dependency, and practically EVERY new mental malady that has been “discovered” (read – made up) in the last century; what do you think about the entire concept of labeling behaviors to give people an easy out?
No, I am not an alcoholic. I don’t believe in such a thing.
Now, weed? I am most certainly, totally and wholeheartedly addicted to weed. You can’t even GET physically addicted to weed, but I managed it. If you cut me, I bleed green smoke.
See The Moon – You are such a douche, man. Don’t you have anything better to do? I am not talking about my personal problems. I am inviting a discussion about how America is getting softer because everyone gets their butt powdered whenever they do something wrong.
Get a friend.
Best answer:
Answer by Monti
Well I think some people really do have ADHD, and need to take care of it. Now, for the rest of your question I totally agree. Especially with the overeating thing. People just need to develop some will-power and stop letting things like this make them weak.
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