- Joined
- Sep 5, 2019
Guys, plenty of alcoholics can stop drinking for extended periods of time without going to rehab or seeking support for recovery. But you sure as shit wouldn’t want to be around them for it. That’s why the families of dry drunks often end up begging them to go back on the sauce. “Put us out of YOUR misery and just drink already.”
If addiction was just about the physical compulsion to drink, going through detox would cure everyone who struggles with it. The mental obsession can even lift if you distract yourself with other substances or behaviors, like sex, gambling or shopping. (And we’ve seen signs that Nick has an under the radar compulsion to frequently burn cash on poorly considered purchases he then does nothing with once the fix of buying them has passed.)
What remains is the emotional immaturity and raft of character defects driving the person’s existence. Nick says he’s been addicted to porn since he was 14, and addicts stop developing emotionally at the age when they first find their fix.
So here we have a person who’s got the maturity of (at best) a young teenager, missing his daily quart of whiskey and trying to prove a point to Kiwi Farms about how wrong they are and how enviable his life is, even having lost custody of his children and being exposed as a degenerate who’s been neglecting and abusing (perhaps not physically but in other ways) his kids for at least a year. I can see him cutting the alcohol just because he thinks it’s a way to “own” his detractors. And he wouldn’t necessarily struggle with that much or at all in the short-term.
If addiction was just about the physical compulsion to drink, going through detox would cure everyone who struggles with it. The mental obsession can even lift if you distract yourself with other substances or behaviors, like sex, gambling or shopping. (And we’ve seen signs that Nick has an under the radar compulsion to frequently burn cash on poorly considered purchases he then does nothing with once the fix of buying them has passed.)
What remains is the emotional immaturity and raft of character defects driving the person’s existence. Nick says he’s been addicted to porn since he was 14, and addicts stop developing emotionally at the age when they first find their fix.
So here we have a person who’s got the maturity of (at best) a young teenager, missing his daily quart of whiskey and trying to prove a point to Kiwi Farms about how wrong they are and how enviable his life is, even having lost custody of his children and being exposed as a degenerate who’s been neglecting and abusing (perhaps not physically but in other ways) his kids for at least a year. I can see him cutting the alcohol just because he thinks it’s a way to “own” his detractors. And he wouldn’t necessarily struggle with that much or at all in the short-term.