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Hi Doctor. I've been working in behavioral health for over 10+ years and have remained an alcoholic. I'm a professional and successful, but am struggling myself, even as i'm writing this. I don't know if this is a disease or not, but what I will say is there seems to be an allergy that is absolutely uncontrollable for me to use this substance. There's no family issue, job, or scenario that will deter me. I feel sick and I literally tell my self I won't do it....but I do. Let's pretend there's no such thing as "willpower" with this problem. How would you diagnose it?
It’s not a disease, it’s a predisposition. With that, you learn how to redirect yourself and move on. The problem with disease thinking is it’s more like a learned helplessness that forever traps you in therapy.
I don’t understand why more behavioral health professionals are not talking about trauma. Trauma is the gateway drug for so many people. I mean, if you look at people who have experienced either complex trauma, childhood trauma PTSD, so either multiple traumas childhood trauma or a significant trauma from one specific experience, you see some damage in the lobes that are affected by stroke. So trauma does change the brain.
@@anthonymurphy2779 I can see what he's saying on a learned behavior and the biological aspect. All behavior is learned be it alcoholism or riding a bike. And riding a bike is also biological as your brain reacts to what you're trying to achieve. To distinguish doing any kind of activity it's all learned. Alcoholism is not something anyone wants to have. I don't believe it's learned. How do you learn to become an alcoholic? Addiction is coping. It's what you do to cope. You don't learn to become an alcoholic. You do learn to ride a bike. Addiction is something that is already inside you be it trauma, depression, anxiety. I'm an alcoholic because I can't fight anxiety and depression. I take medication that helps. The best therapist I ever had told me there will be no cure. That's the most honest thing anyone has ever told me. This guy in the video knows what he learned. I can tell you just by listening to him he's never had an addiction. He's talking out of a textbook. No one who has ever been an addict or has had chronic anxiety or depression knows what they're talking about. It's impossible for them to know what they're talking about. I agree addiction is a disease. Is it learned? It can be I suppose. Not for everyone. So I don't think this video has aged very well because studies continue and the learning bullshit is - well - bullshit. I didn't learn to become an alcoholic. I was one when that first drop hit my lips.
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Hi Doctor. I've been working in behavioral health for over 10+ years and have remained an alcoholic. I'm a professional and successful, but am struggling myself, even as i'm writing this. I don't know if this is a disease or not, but what I will say is there seems to be an allergy that is absolutely uncontrollable for me to use this substance. There's no family issue, job, or scenario that will deter me. I feel sick and I literally tell my self I won't do it....but I do. Let's pretend there's no such thing as "willpower" with this problem. How would you diagnose it?
Best explanation I’ve ever heard yet! And I’ve been through TWO rehabs.
It’s not a disease, it’s a predisposition. With that, you learn how to redirect yourself and move on. The problem with disease thinking is it’s more like a learned helplessness that forever traps you in therapy.
I don’t understand why more behavioral health professionals are not talking about trauma. Trauma is the gateway drug for so many people. I mean, if you look at people who have experienced either complex trauma, childhood trauma PTSD, so either multiple traumas childhood trauma or a significant trauma from one specific experience, you see some damage in the lobes that are affected by stroke. So trauma does change the brain.
Excellent explanation.
I love this guy!
its an actual compulsion or habit..not a disease...its learned
Alcoholism can be observed in people's brains, and it is a disease very much like how diabetes is a disease.
Childhood trauma..
Was raised in a middle class family. I'm successful.
This didn't age very well.
Why not?
in what way?
@@anthonymurphy2779 I can see what he's saying on a learned behavior and the biological aspect. All behavior is learned be it alcoholism or riding a bike. And riding a bike is also biological as your brain reacts to what you're trying to achieve. To distinguish doing any kind of activity it's all learned. Alcoholism is not something anyone wants to have. I don't believe it's learned. How do you learn to become an alcoholic? Addiction is coping. It's what you do to cope. You don't learn to become an alcoholic. You do learn to ride a bike. Addiction is something that is already inside you be it trauma, depression, anxiety. I'm an alcoholic because I can't fight anxiety and depression. I take medication that helps. The best therapist I ever had told me there will be no cure. That's the most honest thing anyone has ever told me. This guy in the video knows what he learned. I can tell you just by listening to him he's never had an addiction. He's talking out of a textbook. No one who has ever been an addict or has had chronic anxiety or depression knows what they're talking about. It's impossible for them to know what they're talking about. I agree addiction is a disease. Is it learned? It can be I suppose. Not for everyone. So I don't think this video has aged very well because studies continue and the learning bullshit is - well - bullshit. I didn't learn to become an alcoholic. I was one when that first drop hit my lips.
No offence, but I am a human not an animal.
This guy is
Character flaw.
meaning what exactly? What character flaw are you refering to?