Ruth and the Disease of Alcoholism (Part 1 of 2)

Ruth started abusing alcohol at a young age, and her abuse to giving birth to a still born baby at the age of 13. She continued to be afflicted through marriage, through service in the military, and throughout a good part of her life.

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[Konradeconstruction]

Alcoholism isn't a disease. People make the choices to drink. Addiction, however, is real. But at the same time one builds up to that addiction, and it is an addiction that is terribly hard to break. But at one point or another one must MAN up and quit feeling sorry for themselves. It will hurt, but it WILL ultimately make you a much better, happier person. If you can't overcome alcoholism for yourself, think of the ones you love. Feeling sorry for yourself is the WORST thing you can do

[beautifulmind546]

Hey Ruth, you went through some tought beginnings AND THEN YOU MADE BAD CHOICES. You don't have a disease and no matter how many times you use the word disease you still don't have a disease. And to the comment below yes there is a difference between ppl who choose to be drunks and ppl who don't and the difference is the ppl who choose not to have more courage. There are no chemical or physiological differences and to beLIEve so is to lie to yourself.

[Polaris382]

No, my point was (and of course countless people will disagree with this) that the condition of Alcoholism (and this is based off of personal experience) isnt a choice. I very much believe that there is something different-whether chemically or physiologically or whatever in the Brain of an alcoholic as compared to non alcoholics. My point is those things arent a choice, but continuing to drink/being a "practicing" alcoholic is.

[groeneduim]

Auf dieses Video antworten...  And I heard rumors that in certain professions people even get drunnk on the workfloor, and consider you some kind of outsider if you don't.

So in certain environments young people, especially men get a much higher risk of infection with the alcohol than in others, making them vulnerable and decreasing free will.

Though I agree with you that not drinking is a sound decision. But I'm supporting a global ban on ALL drugs including most important... alcohol.

[groeneduim]

@Hammersley1967

In the army... in fact your not supposed to be drunk on duty, but in the baraks you have to drink to survive the kind of brutal peer pressure enforced on you by your fellow comrades.

Though... that is hopefully about to change.

Because more and more countries in europe end the peoples armies and instead go over to proffessional armies.

See the draft gets young men into the army. Most intilligent people sneak away from the draft. What's left are rambo idiots.

[groeneduim]

@Hammersley1967

hmmm... no in fact there is no law that you have to drink, which is implemented by drill sergeants or university deans.

It is more like a kind of involuntary peer pressure.

Normal peer pressure you will experience if you want to join a club or clique.

In students orgnaizations that peer pressure is in often formalized into some kind of initiation year in which you have to do ridiculous humiliatiing things, and get drunk a lot.

[Hammersley1967]

@groeneduim

"And in FACT holding people down and forcing alcohol in their stomache by funnel really happens."

I see...

"Though I never seen this kind of tactic, my self."

IS THAT RIGHT!!!?

"Student clubs also torture people into submission, to create an inflated ' honour' to belong to the club."

Torture? Submission? My goodness!

German universities sound like they have a lively, yet brutal, culture...

Sounds like a resurgence of 1939 German politics on the university campus!!! (卐)

[Hammersley1967]

@groeneduim

"There is always one or two brave people who refuse first."

I've refused to drink for 16 years...

My father was in the Air Force and served in Vietnam...

He didn't drink a drop in his life...

Neither of us consider ourselves "brave" for abstaining from alcohol...

Rather we think of it as a rational DECISION...

[Hammersley1967]

@groeneduim

"Maybe the army in america is different from our armies in europe. Or maybe your student organizations are different, that's possible."

I come from Australia. Australia is one of the hardest drinking nations on earth...

"In the army everybody HAS to drink."

Is there a law is there? A strict induction regulation? You can't join if you don't drink?

Or perhaps the commanders use a special rack and shackles to restrain the non-drinking servicemen with and force them to drink?

[Hammersley1967]

@groeneduim

"there is such a strong correlation of alcoholism which runs in the family"

A WEAK correlation...

The point is, this WEAK correlation is more suggestive of a familial social learning than biogenic transmission...

"what was that about the biochemical factors?"

What about 'em?

"it has been proven that people vary in the degree of their alcohol Intolerance."

Intolerance to what?

And why do you keep prefacing your comments with "Respond to this video"?