maybe you are under estimating Mel's turmoil? Why would a man with his success be an alcoholic? He must have alot of conflict.
---maybe you are under estimating Mel's turmoil? Why would a man with his success be an alcoholic? He must have alot of conflict.---
Alcoholism is a disease. Alcohol burns the alcoholic like and acid. Success or failure, conflict, or depression are all beside the point. It is the alcohol that is killing the person. They can deal with whatever is left over once they put down the glass. Alcoholism is not for sissies.
Why would a man as successful as Gibson be an alcoholic? The short answer is, money and success have absolutely no bearing on who becomes an alcoholic and who does not. It's a disease. It's a disease that will strike, by most estimates, a minimum of 1 out of every 10 social drinkers.
It's natural to assume that cause and effect thinking is the answer to understanding alcoholism, but it is not. The most successful, wealthy, and often famous people I've met have been recovering alcoholics. And I don't mean just a few people of that sort, I mean a whole lot of them.
Many years ago the famous author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote the following before he died of alcoholism:
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
He wrote the truth, though many people choose not to believe it. Seems they'd rather be mad at and misinformed about alcoholism, rather than accept the truth. That's too bad. The sooner the public accepts the true nature of alcoholism, the better off everyone's going to be.