An MFT suggests we find out “why” a 14-year-old drinks and that it could be a cry for help. What nonsense. The little girl likely inherited alcoholism.
“The most important thing is to find out why she’s been drinking. It’s very likely that her drinking is a cry for help.”
So wrote Stephanie Anderson Ladd, a licensed Marriage Family Therapist (MFT), responding to a letter in her column from a worried mother who found that her 14-year-old daughter has been drinking after school.
As is all-too-typical of MFTs, Ms. Ladd doesn’t grasp the fundamental idea of alcoholism: that the biochemistry of the addict impels the addict to drink. They do not drink heavily and end up as addicts; they process the drug alcoholically, which allows them to drink heavily. Any excuse will do.
Because alcoholism causes “euphoric recall,” which makes those with alcoholism view all they do through self-favoring lenses, they develop a Godlike sense of self. This is difficult for non-addicts to understand, since they can’t experience this feeling. However, this is the reason they drink—they feel like they’re God—which is far from any cry for “help.”
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