I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.