Good for you, random internet person, good for you.
Do you think the disease model implies more some kind of genetic/environmental slant, as opposed to a 'weak character'. I think what the disease model is putting forward is that something outside of your control led to your addiction rather than something you're supposedly meant to have control over, that is to say your decisions and will.
Thanks for posting this.
edit: And I just remembered, the clinical/medical label used is actually "illness", not disease...
Illness, they say, refers to the patient's experience of the disease. A person with a disease might not feel ill, and a person who experiences illness might not have a disease.
Do you think the disease model implies more some kind of genetic/environmental slant, as opposed to a 'weak character'. I think what the disease model is putting forward is that something outside of your control led to your addiction rather than something you're supposedly meant to have control over, that is to say your decisions and will.
Thanks for posting this.
edit: And I just remembered, the clinical/medical label used is actually "illness", not disease...