OOmis -“My deepest sympathy to you. I would point out, though, that when one suffers from a true addiction, though they must be held accountable to a degree for their actions, the addiction controls them and not vice versa.
I do not, nevertheless, believe that addiction is a disease, in spite of what the AMA would have us say politically correctly. It is not a disease to smoke that first marijuana cigarette, or swallow that first amphetamine. It may be that one person’s body reacts more quickly addictively to a drug than another, and maybe one person can metabolize alcohol more easily than another, but NO ONE FORCES ANYONE TO ABUSE ALCOHOL AND DRUGS. Ditto for internet inappropriate websites.”
I think that Toeiva being classified as Not a Mental illness was based on PC, nothing else.
What kind of education do you have to proclaim that these are Not Illnesses?
I don’t think you have the foggiest idea what a Mental Illness is, quite frankly!
With people like you – we Frum Jews will never stop Stigmatizing Mentally Ill people!
Just FYI, noone claimed that first or first few whatever was part of the illness, e/o knows that was just s/o not controlling themselves.