Drinking is the least of the worries of a Bipolar, considering mental illness alters the personality and the relationships of the sufferer. Drinking is always secondary to mental illness.
I respect Stanton Peele very much, if for no other reason than just for the reason that he is informed well, he also telling us all about the approach he sees things. Nevertheless, even the mighty sometime misstep, and this appears to be one of those cases.
Maybe Stanton missed this sentence since it was a few lines above the one he was focusing on, but what it’s telling us is that the vast majority of people who meet alcohol dependence criteria do so for a very limited amount of time when another 29% or so have the chronic-relapsing version of alcoholism we’ve all come to know. So yes, most people quit without help, but the rest have a hell of a time quitting and most of them need help and even then don’t necessarily respond to cure. I don’t know that this is very different from the percentage of people that eat too much and gain weight, some stop and return to a normal BMI, the rest become obese. The same story holds for the prediabetics who never quite cross that line but once they do, will need insulin and a strictly managed diet. In both cases I don’t think we need to discount the latter because the former exists.
I agree that this sort of nuanced observation is missing from the public discourse, and I think that it’s important to bring it in since it does something important – it lessens the stigma of alcoholism and addiction by showing us what is really happening without distortion. However, showing only the other side does little to improve the situation.
Most of persons who meet the meaning of alcohol-dependence should possibly not be named alcoholics. On the other hand, there is a big enough group out there of people who really suffer with a state that doesn’t go away while their first 4 years episode of hard alcohol use ends. They require cure and they’re the focus of most study on addiction and alcoholism, as they probable should be while it arrives to cure. That other group, they just require to be careful not to get in a car accident or get pregnant too early.
Years of episodes and psychosis put Bipolar’s in a defining depressive state. The ability to refrain, coincides with years of brain altering episodes quite common really. All people who engage in such self deception, should be seen as unwell, and encouraged to be more better, with medicine.
I respect Stanton Peele very much, if for no other reason than just for the reason that he is informed well, he also telling us all about the approach he sees things. Nevertheless, even the mighty sometime misstep, and this appears to be one of those cases.
Maybe Stanton missed this sentence since it was a few lines above the one he was focusing on, but what it’s telling us is that the vast majority of people who meet alcohol dependence criteria do so for a very limited amount of time when another 29% or so have the chronic-relapsing version of alcoholism we’ve all come to know. So yes, most people quit without help, but the rest have a hell of a time quitting and most of them need help and even then don’t necessarily respond to cure. I don’t know that this is very different from the percentage of people that eat too much and gain weight, some stop and return to a normal BMI, the rest become obese. The same story holds for the prediabetics who never quite cross that line but once they do, will need insulin and a strictly managed diet. In both cases I don’t think we need to discount the latter because the former exists.
I agree that this sort of nuanced observation is missing from the public discourse, and I think that it’s important to bring it in since it does something important – it lessens the stigma of alcoholism and addiction by showing us what is really happening without distortion. However, showing only the other side does little to improve the situation.
Most of persons who meet the meaning of alcohol-dependence should possibly not be named alcoholics. On the other hand, there is a big enough group out there of people who really suffer with a state that doesn’t go away while their first 4 years episode of hard alcohol use ends. They require cure and they’re the focus of most study on addiction and alcoholism, as they probable should be while it arrives to cure. That other group, they just require to be careful not to get in a car accident or get pregnant too early.
Years of episodes and psychosis put Bipolar’s in a defining depressive state. The ability to refrain, coincides with years of brain altering episodes quite common really. All people who engage in such self deception, should be seen as unwell, and encouraged to be more better, with medicine.
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