LadyPact
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr You're right, but it certainly would be best if you would stop fucking lying about what I say. That would be best. Remeber the part where I asked you to just pretend I didn't exist and leave me the fuck alone? Michael, I apologize. Shall we continue? quote:
ORIGINAL: LadyPact Without going nuts on my google-fu, if I recall correctly, alcoholism was one of the first "diseases" that the AMA endorsed without a specific point of origin. (Simply put, no root cause.) At one time, wasn't it associated with obsession and compulsion? But OCD and the like were considered psychological disorders. Not a physical disease. Didn't AA spring forth something like 126 different recovery programs? quote:
I'm not sure about CDO, but people who were alcoholic frequently wound up in sanatoriums ... you know ... places for the mentally ill (which were not prize winners back then). Yep, we're good. That should be about the time frame that it was considered a mental illness. Same as certain other things that were considered mental illness at that time. (I think my time frame is off because I want to say homosexuality could get a person locked up back then, too.) quote:
AA evolved from nothing except a chance meeting between Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Cleveland in JUN of 1935. They had both already concluded that they were hopelessly addicted and ran into each other, started talking and realized that just sharing their experience, strength, and hope had helped them to stay sober for a period of time. Isn't that a part from the introduction to the "Big Book"? quote:
To "test their theory", they searched out another person in similar distress and did the same thing with them. It worked. That person is known as "Alcoholic Anonymous #3 in the Big Book. This is what I get for not reading ahead. quote:
AA was the very first 12 step recovery program. Anyone else using those same twelve steps (maybe slightly altered; just insert your particular addiction) is indebted to and an offshoot of AA. Didn't some of those offshoots come about because certain things (like illegal drugs, sex, gambling, etc) weren't going so well in AA rooms? From there, correct me if I'm wrong, (as I know you will) the heroin addicts (hypothetical) weren't sitting so well with the alcoholics, because, well, people do what people do. Drinking yourself to death was ok, because "legal". quote:
Michael ETA: Still no apology for blatantly misrepresenting my position? I have to admit: I expected as much. Look up.
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