So what you are saying, oh nameless one, is that a chemical addiction is the only real addiction? And that people who resort to other non-substance based highs, such as gambling, adultery, binge eating and the like are not addicts but ordinary "self-indulgent" people who make excuses for themselves based on the diagnosis of overly liberal psychologists?
I understand your point that the meaning of the word "addiction" has been stretched, but you take it way too far. Unfortunately the English language has a way of adapting a lot of words whose definitions some might wish were more succinct, but you have lost your way in trying to rein this one in.
Give your head a shake sir (or madam). It doesn't matter how we get there, if we are endangering ourselves and our families because of addiction, habituation or whatever you want to call it, we have a mental health issue. Calling sick people self-indulgent and diminishing their disease does nothing but create a world where sick people refuse to seek help, or worse still, are not offered it. Do you want to tell a 14 year old girl that her anorexia is self-indulgent and that she should just get over herself?
Wake-up bub.
I understand your point that the meaning of the word "addiction" has been stretched, but you take it way too far. Unfortunately the English language has a way of adapting a lot of words whose definitions some might wish were more succinct, but you have lost your way in trying to rein this one in.
Give your head a shake sir (or madam). It doesn't matter how we get there, if we are endangering ourselves and our families because of addiction, habituation or whatever you want to call it, we have a mental health issue. Calling sick people self-indulgent and diminishing their disease does nothing but create a world where sick people refuse to seek help, or worse still, are not offered it. Do you want to tell a 14 year old girl that her anorexia is self-indulgent and that she should just get over herself?
Wake-up bub.
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