Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.
Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.
Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this is a disease, but what the disease means.
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
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.
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.
