A series has been started. This post, like the one I wrote on schizophrenia , attempts to delve into the life experience many in Homeless World have, as a means for the rest of us to apprehend the others' suffering. This is also an attempt to know how to treat people with certain problems and to learn what homeless-aid personnel can empathetically, properly do when angry or wild behavior manifests. From About.com , ... the most simple way to describe [alcoholism] is "a mental obsession that causes a physical compulsion to drink." Did you ever wake up in the morning with a song playing over and over in your head? ... No matter what you did, that silly tune kept on playing. You could try to whistle or sing another song or turn on the radio and listen to another tune, but the one in your head just kept on playing. ... Such is the nature of the disease of alcoholism. When the drinking "song" starts playing in the mind of an alcoholic, he is powerless, ... the only w...
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