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I spent a lovely lunch with friends this week in a pub and a neighbour of one of the girls sauntered over to say hi.
Well he was off his box and continued to down pint after pint of Stella at the next table while we others chatted.
My friend later informed me this guy is jobless; understandable in this climate of course but he is also on incapacity benefit. What for?? Alcoholism!!
Now before I get myself in trouble let me make it clear I am completely aware that alcoholism is a disease and that it's many of its sufferers would gladly quit if they could. Just explain somebody why the Govt is giving this guy money for drink and not helping him get treatment?? I felt he should have bought me one as it is my money.
Well he was off his box and continued to down pint after pint of Stella at the next table while we others chatted.
My friend later informed me this guy is jobless; understandable in this climate of course but he is also on incapacity benefit. What for?? Alcoholism!!
Now before I get myself in trouble let me make it clear I am completely aware that alcoholism is a disease and that it's many of its sufferers would gladly quit if they could. Just explain somebody why the Govt is giving this guy money for drink and not helping him get treatment?? I felt he should have bought me one as it is my money.
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I am both an ex drink and drug abuser and I feel it's more of a response than an addiction or a disease. Once you re-learn and recondition your responses to negative stimulus you negate the need for whatever substance/ experience props you up. That being said until you are taught how to do that it can be an overwhelming compulsion, so much so that you're average person thinks that it's impossible to have a normal relationship with drink or drugs once you are yourself again, which I've found to not be true as now I can drink socially without the need to get off my head to obliterate the darker parts of my life, but it's easy to judge other people when you haven't been there.
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As many of you on here know my son is an alcoholic - he has never been able to claim benifits because of his addiction, not that he's tried!
As for many of you saying it isn't a disease... when he was rushed into hospital following a seizure, that almost cost him his life, I was so angry with him that I was on the point of disowning him. A doctor came to talk to me and said if he'd had cancer people would feel sorry for him and he would be able to get help and, almost certainly, be cured. Because he's alcohol dependant he has to do it for himself. He's now on day 11 alcohol free. He's got a long way to go but please don't knock anyone without knowing the full story. My boy is lucky to have family support, a lot of folk don't have that.
As for many of you saying it isn't a disease... when he was rushed into hospital following a seizure, that almost cost him his life, I was so angry with him that I was on the point of disowning him. A doctor came to talk to me and said if he'd had cancer people would feel sorry for him and he would be able to get help and, almost certainly, be cured. Because he's alcohol dependant he has to do it for himself. He's now on day 11 alcohol free. He's got a long way to go but please don't knock anyone without knowing the full story. My boy is lucky to have family support, a lot of folk don't have that.