In article <040120040025036105%anon-11957@anon.twwells.com>, Ted L.
<anon-11957@anon.twwells.com> wrote:

> In article <bt7h1t$45ais$1@ID-49289.news.uni-berlin.de>, Robert
> McGregor <robert_mcgregor@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > In both professional and lay circles, there is a tendency to label
> > everything that an alcoholic may do as "alcoholic behavior." The
> > truth is, it is simply human nature.
>
> Oh horror of horrors! You mean I can't blame my bad behavior (whatever
> it might be) on the fact that I have an alcoholic personality? Oh dear,
> oh dear oh dear. Next thing you'll be saying there isn't such a thing
> as an addictive personality either. Such revisionist thinking has got
> to stop! (besides, who's going to pay for all those treatment
> professionals to go back to school and unlearn all that?)

Well, the professionals have preferred to make their bucks by
conjuring up a couple of so-called "personality disorders" instead.
MUCH better. LOL