A Quote by Terence McKenna

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Terence McKenna

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Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self Self-Image

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Terence McKenna
American - Writer
November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Chris Prentiss

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Malachy McCourt

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Vance Havner

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Craig Ferguson

I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that is more fun than alcoholism. I know it has its downside, but I'll tell you, there's no other party disease like alcohol.

Dom Irrera

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

Caroline Knapp

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

Malachy McCourt

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

Mitch Hedberg

But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.

Adrian Dunbar

Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't have the answer to that debate, and frankly I don't care because when you try to pinpoint 'why,' it can often lead to blaming another person, an incident in your past, or circumstances.

Eva Marie

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

Mercedes McCambridge

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

Mercedes McCambridge

I think we all do craft a certain self-image. I guess the degree that our internal self-image matches the image we project, we perhaps feel really uncomfortable in the world when there is a difference. That can cause a lot of stress or bad feelings about ourselves.

George Harrar

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

Liza Minnelli

In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.