RE: Debunk-Tuesday – Does Alcohol Kill Brain Cells?
Hi again @egotheist! Promised I'll be back ...
Thank you again for your very thorough review of the “biology” of alcoholism and its devastating effects on the body.
I am intimately and painfully aware of the havoc addiction wreaks on an individual and their loved ones.
I have come to discover that the drug or the drink are just symptoms of a deeper and very much an "inner" problem. The booze actually isn’t the problem. It’s the addict’s inability to stop before and especially after the first hit, toke, drink. For the alcoholic “One drink is too many and a thousand isn’t enough.”
Physically, emotionally, psychologically spiritually, alcohol affects the alcoholic differently from a “normal drinker”.
Is biology the cause, the effect (or both), of the bodily devastation?
These are just random thoughts in response to your article.
Thanks again for your insight!
Thanks a lot for your thoughts! :)
I agree. Many times (not always) the abuse of alcohol is a result of serious problems. But the abuse makes it even worse in the end, thus makes it incredibly hard to break out of this cycle :/
I think it's both. Maybe you start drinking, because it makes you feel good. At some point, you can't be happy without a drink anymore and slowly your whole life crumbles around you, because you can't control your addiction anymore. In my opinion, it's important for family and friends to provide support at this point and to get help for the alcoholic without being judgemental.