Not-a-cluey Best FOOTBALL RELATED RUMOUR you have heard from someone you trust Part Deux - Many lies and bullshit in here. Please read OP before posting.

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[BarryMorgan]

I’m just glad your mate doesn’t partake in gossip, sport.

But he does partake in sport gossip

 

[zeggie]

How does one get a medical diagnosis for alcoholism? And why?
I would have thought it would be fairly easy to self-diagnose.

How does one get a medical diagnosis for leukaemia?

 

[Toump Ass]

How does one get a medical diagnosis for leukaemia?

Bit hard to self-diagnose that one I would have thought. Requires a few tests and so forth.

 

[zeggie]

Bit hard to self-diagnose that one I would have thought. Requires a few tests and so forth.

Really? I would have thought it would be fairly easy to self-diagnose.

 

[Toump Ass]

Really? I would have thought it would be fairly easy to self-diagnose.

Leukaemia? Ok.

 

[mattyc75]

How does one get a medical diagnosis for alcoholism? And why?
I would have thought it would be fairly easy to self-diagnose.

And self medicate

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[Cubs2Lions]

And self medicate

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[Tadpole]

Needs to get his medication and dosage reviewed if it's having that sort of side effect.

 

[LanceRomance]

Melbourne pretty big on the counter offensive this week. Not sure what took them this long.

Wouldn't be surprised if licensed journos being told they can't report negative stories on Melbourne for a while either.

 

[Pistol Night]

Melbourne pretty big on the counter offensive this week. Not sure what took them this long.

Wouldn't be surprised of licensed journos being told they can't report negative stories on Melbourne for a while either.

Wouldn’t that be a nice luxury for a club

 

[LanceRomance]

Wouldn’t that be a nice luxury for a club

Have you read The Boys Club?

pretty enlightening book.

Michael Warner should write a second book now Gil has retired.

 

[Dan Moody]

They're even in the hierarchy of people using them are always a flog.

don't agree cocko

 

[Silver Tongue]

Watching the '77 Grand Final replay on Fox. Lou Richards re: Barry Cable ... 'he was interfered with ...'

Lou didn't quite get his pronouns right.

 

[Anzacday]

How does one get a medical diagnosis for alcoholism?

GP

And why?

To alert the patient to the severity of their drinking problem perhaps.
Formalise their condition as an explanation for behavioural issues might be another.

 

[Toump Ass]

GP

To alert the patient to the severity of their drinking problem perhaps.
Formalise their condition as an explanation for behavioural issues might be another.

Yes I suppose this would be the case wouldn’t it.

Very curious a medically diagnosed alcoholic, as opposed to a non-medically diagnosed alcoholic is in charge of a football club.

I wonder who it is?
Probably not Simon Goodwin. He is hyper-focussed on success by all accounts and very driven. His team has finished Top 4 in the home and away for three years running. A keen surfer too, fitness fanatic. Doesn’t mind a punt tho.

Ross The Boss? Bit of a slob?

 

[bobs head soup]

GP

To alert the patient to the severity of their drinking problem perhaps.
Formalise their condition as an explanation for behavioural issues might be another.

There are medical treatments, such as pharmaceuticals that make the body repel alcohol, for chronic alcoholism that can be prescribed once somebody is medically diagnosed.

Also easier to get into detox programmes and other therapies.

 

[branedotorg]

GP

To alert the patient to the severity of their drinking problem perhaps.
Formalise their condition as an explanation for behavioural issues might be another.

means you've met the DSM-5 clause for clinically significant impairment or distress. Once you get to Alcohol Misuse Disorder it's probably at a stage that you life is collapsing and that things like organ failure or permanent mental impairment are likely outcomes.

 

[LanceRomance]

My ex claimed I was an alcoholic as part of a child custody dispute.

I had to do a range of tests to prove I wasn't. Main one being a cdt test (blood) which determines heavy drinking in the 2-3 weeks prior.

Fortunately I fell within normal cdt range.

There is also a hair test and the good old liver function test.

 

[Hank Heavenly]

Yes I suppose this would be the case wouldn’t it.

Very curious a medically diagnosed alcoholic, as opposed to a non-medically diagnosed alcoholic is in charge of a football club.

I wonder who it is?
Probably not Simon Goodwin. He is hyper-focussed on success by all accounts and very driven. His team has finished Top 4 in the home and away for three years running. A keen surfer too, fitness fanatic. Doesn’t mind a punt tho.

Ross The Boss? Bit of a slob?

There are plenty of high funtioning acoholics... you will find them at footy clubs, high pressured work environments, high corprate positions.

And from what I hear, it's never their "work" that breaks down, it's usually their personal/home life that suffers.

 

[Toump Ass]

There are plenty of high funtioning acoholics... you will find them at footy clubs, high pressured work environments, high corprate positions.

I am not doubting the existence of high functioning alcoholics.

means you've met the DSM-5 clause for clinically significant impairment or distress. Once you get to Alcohol Misuse Disorder it's probably at a stage that you life is collapsing and that things like organ failure or permanent mental impairment are likely outcomes.

… but I’m not sure it is possible to be a medically diagnosed alcoholic with organ failure etc. and be a senior coach of a successful AFl club.

 

[GetDimmaBack]

I am not doubting the existence of high functioning alcoholics.


… but I’m not sure it is possible to be a medically diagnosed alcoholic with organ failure etc. and be a senior coach of a successful AFl club.

Not all alcoholics have organ damage.

There are plenty of alcoholics in high end roles.

However, the majority of them would be have been sober for some time. They also know they can never drink again.

When alcoholics dry out, get their lives in order and become fully functional, they are still alcoholics.
It's a permanent condition - the only ''remedy'' is sobriety.

 

[Toump Ass]

I understand the nuance but I think we should be very clear.

Medically diagnosed alcoholic senior coach who has dried out ie: sober and is not hampered by alcohol and is fully functioning sounds much better.

 

[EagleMan87]

I thought Goodwin's biggest issue was punting? Isn't that why he's pawning off his premiership guernsey?

 

[Devington]

I thought Goodwin's biggest issue was punting? Isn't that why he's pawning off his premiership guernsey?

Interestingly that wasn't brought up by Pert...

 

[Pacman Carney]

There are medical treatments, such as pharmaceuticals that make the body repel alcohol, for chronic alcoholism that can be prescribed once somebody is medically diagnosed.

Also easier to get into detox programmes and other therapies.

Naltrexone is used for this.