I had an acquaintance who was an alcoholic.
She SWORE up and down that she wasn't and that she could control her drinking.
And everyone knew the true.
I returned a phone call one night and she was drunker than a skunk and didn't even remember the next day that she had talked to me.
I finally read her the riot act and told her flat out that she was an alcoholic and could not control her drinking and it was destroying her.
It did eventually. I'm convinced that was her cause of death even though the coroner had a different one listed.
She was in such denial that I lost all sympathy for her and would not help her any more. Since she wasn't interested in helping herself, I wasn't going to waste my time trying either.
“She was in such denial that I lost all sympathy for her and would not help her any more. Since she wasn’t interested in helping herself, I wasn’t going to waste my time trying either.”
I wish most people would come to that logical conclusion instead of becoming emotional and wanting more taxpayers’ money into liberal programs. Now, they think the addicts have preexisting conditions. More like preexisting stupidity.