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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
The medical profession was still considering homosexuality a mental illness in your lifetime, too.
I think what boggles the minds of non-alcoholics is that it seems so simple- just stop drinking, right? But in the mind of an alcoholic it just doesn't work that way.
This is pure woo speculation on my part, but I do think there's a difference in brain wiring for people prone to addiction, and sometimes I wonder if it's more likely in people with a higher tolerance for adrenaline/stress. My dad is amazing in a crisis. Amazing. Calm, clear-headed, insightful. It's everyday life he can't handle.
And when it comes to jockeys, these are men and women who are happy to get on a fragile animal traveling at 30 miles an hour, knowing they are going to break bones several times in their career. You have to be an adrenaline junkie to want to do that.
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i very much agree they have something going on in their heads-i've cautioned my kids that there is addictive behavior in their family history. drinkers, smokers, my loser brother will play world of warcraft all day and all night. i think his kids could spontaneously combust right next to him and he'd never notice. he's made it his life, since he's so unhappy with reality.