Aren’t alcoholics very emotionally fragile?
There is no doubt that the addiction is very physically and emotionally devastating. But looking at another aspect, there may be nothing else that causes the physical and psychological distress of drinking for the alcoholic. If they can tolerate that without dying they are very, very tough. I have heard many doctors, after doing a history and physical on a new patient, say “That guy must be really tough, what he has been through due to his drinking would have killed an ordinary person a long time ago.” They would just shake their heads at what the alcoholics and addicts could go through and still survive.
