Seek help.

To every GG stan who might rage at the title and scroll immediately to the comments:

See Dr. Robert Jay Lifton’s 8 Criteria for Thought Reform below. You can place a check mark next to every single one.

Absolutely, I partied too much for 6 months or so in my early 20s. I grew up.

Or maybe he is not an alcoholic? Not everyone who drinks/parties too much is an addict. Some folks just make bad choices.

It was designed specifically to attract actors/musicians and help the feel special and successful.

Well, in many cases, like how Muslims get into Islam or Mormons get into Mormon or Christians get into Christianity. Family, sometimes. Friends, lovers, community. Sometimes a belief system provides you with something that you need. I know people who have converted to Islam and Judaism as adults - they made a choice…

Or maybe he realized if he continued down the path he was on, he would become an alcoholic, so he sought help before it got to that point. You aren’t either fully in control or fully an alcoholic. There are places in between.

Thank you. I spent ages 18 to 25 in a very cult-like AA group. I was so warped I believed I would literally drop dead if I took one drink. After 17 years I finally said “fuck it” and started drinking socially. Now I am a well adjusted human being. If I want to have a drink when I’m out socially I do. Alcohol was…

Substance abuse is not a binary, it’s a spectrum. There are people who have had a bad bout with drinking in their youth and then learn to manage it when they’re older. The whole abstinence or bust dogma is a distinctly American phenomenon encouraged by AA and 12-step treatment centers which have really low success…

But if you don’t read the articles, then how do you know that they’re misinformed Michael?

So it’s a detox program built on pseudo-science... I’m not sure what else I expected. lol

They’re weird about addiction though. Look up the program and it’s bizarre. I assume his denial of alcoholism has something to do with their rhetoric.

Waffling is expected on the bridge and just something to debug. In any event, most people involved in Scientology will never experience anything related to Xenu.

...participating in something like Scientology is still an act of ludicrous faith.

I make no excuse for any religion out there but believing that a space dictator flew his people to earth while frozen then blew them up out of volcanoes with hydrogen bombs then their souls globbed together and inhabited the few survivors of the volcano explosion and that all people have the spirits of those people…

They don’t even learn about Xenu until pretty far into it.

He also appears in Bud ads, which is probably not something a recovering alcoholic should be doing.

That’s not how it works. If it was they’d have no followers.

This woman needs serious psychiatric help. Don’t think jail time is going to be of much use for a woman who inflicts her own disorders on her kids.