Originally Posted by
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Alcoholism is not defined by whether u can stop or start drinking, alcoholism is when drinking if having a detremental effect
on ure life and those around u. If u spend all week in a pub drinking it effects alot of things, no 1 ure health ,ure finances
and ure relationship with others, if u spend alot of time in the pub and go home to a family with alot of drink on u this has
an awful effect on them ,u need not nessecarily be violent or belligerent,(while this would be common) but how can u expect
a wife /partner or kids to have any quality time with u when ure loaded with drink.Im not even mentioning the example it sets.
Alcoholism is a very complex disease and the symptoms manifest themselves in very different ways in different people,there is
no one person u can hold forward and say here is ure typical Alcoholic