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Gazza back in rehab
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2187616/Worried-friends-rush-Paul-Gascoigne-rehab-reports-downs-gin-breakfast-takes-Valium.html
Such a contrast after seeing the new sporting heros emerge at London 2012 to a former hero as a shell of a human.
Sadly, I think the top comment is right. He's going down the Best route and there doesn't seem to be a way back now. He won't make 50
Such a contrast after seeing the new sporting heros emerge at London 2012 to a former hero as a shell of a human.
Sadly, I think the top comment is right. He's going down the Best route and there doesn't seem to be a way back now. He won't make 50
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Can't help but think if he had a stronger manager..
Hope he can find the strength to fight this again.
Sadly, I think he's going to.
My OH always said things could have been different if he'd signed for Man U.
I agree with your OH, Fergie would have been a tougher disciplinarian than Venables.
This is so sad, but I'm not surprised - he was such a great talent too
How many chances does he think he'll have left before he kills himself?
Why should sympathy run out? I don't understand.
He is a troubled man and I would like him to be happy and successful. I hope that he can turn his life around.
Gazza is an addict, sympathy would be of no use to him, only proper, sustained, professional help.
He can have all the rehab in the world but, unless he has a support sytem when he comes out, he'll fall of the wagon time and time again.
I remember watching a programme about him before and, even after he announced he was an alcoholic, his family were still taking him down the pub. It's like they don't really understand or want to.
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Totally agree. It's a pretty desperate situation, poor old Gazza
What branch of the medical profession are you in?
In this case, ignorance is not bliss.:yawn:
Alcoholism is a chronic, lifelong disease. However, if managed properly, damage to the brain can be stopped and to some extent reversed. In addition to problem drinking, the disease is characterized by symptoms including an impaired control over alcohol, compulsive thoughts about alcohol, and distorted thinking. Alcoholism can also lead indirectly, through excess consumption, to physical dependence on alcohol, and diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_theory_of_alcoholism
No it wouldn't
I have worked on alcohol treatment units and was married to an alcoholic for 17 years. Professional help was sought so many times and given - it was however rejected by the addict because alcohol was all he wanted.
No amount of professional help can stop a person drinking - they have to want to do it. Some of them do not want to do it enough.
Addiction is an illness. It can be an addiction to sugar, booze or drugs, but it's extremely difficult to cure if you have an addictive personality.
Amy Winehouse is a case in point. After she'd been to rehab, she was seen buying and eating vast quantities of sweets, but drink killed her in the end, so it looks as if she needed some kind of addiction otherwise she couldn't get through her day or her life.
Gazza seems to have no support from his family, and if as others have said, they take him to the pub when he's with them, he doesn't need them either. He's had countless courses of rehab, but in the end nothing seems to benefit him.
You are right. He says he's an alcoholic, but has he actually admitted it to himself. It doesn't sound as if he has. Only he can stop drinking. It would be great if he had family/friends/doctors backing him up (and not the type who would take him to a pub), but at the end of the day it's down to him.
You've never had to see someone you love and care about battle alcohol addiction, have you?
I have. My mother.
She ****ed up 5 sons.
I have no sympathy with any selfish alcoholic.
So shove it!!!
Doesn't sound as though your mother wanted to give up the booze for either herself or her five sons.
Alcoholism has no boundaries, as a Doctor or a lawyer can as easily become an Alcoholic as someone who is out of work and living on the streets. A common misconception is that an Alcoholic is a tramp who Drinks Vodka and Cider on a street corner at 9 o Clock in the morning, when the reality is more and more middle class people who go through 2 to 3 bottles of wine a night, have a big alcohol problem.
Also a major problem for an alcoholic who is trying to stop, is that if they are Drinking high levels of Alcohol daily then they can't stop just like that, as the person could end up having seizures or even in some cases die. It is not as easy as people say, they can't just stop. A person can only have a chance of stopping drinking if they want to, no doctor, family members, work colleagues or friends can stop an alcoholic drinking if they want to continue, just like Sir Alex Ferguson could not of stopped Gazza drinking, if he had joined Man. Utd instead of Spurs all them years ago, as alcoholics are fantastic liars when it comes to drinking.
Gazza is in the fight of his life and i think it will be one that he ultimately looses as he is not ready to stop drinking and i think he is beyond help, although i hope he proves me wrong. I hope Gazza can beat his demons but sadly i'd be surprised if he does as Alcoholism is a life long illness for an alcoholic.