– Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 4 (“Women Suffer Too”), p 226.
Today, I ask myself in honesty if the “benefits” of my drinking have been obliterated by the consequences – hangovers, drinking out of necessity instead of choice, blackouts, loss of friends who suggested I had a problem, drinking to self-medicate. If in the end I can concede that I depend on alcohol for pleasure or as a solution to some state of mind like anguish or loneliness, I cannot deny that I am addicted if only emotionally or psychologically. That, by definition, makes me an alcoholic. Today, then, I seek the courage and strength not to reject friends or acquaintances who are worried, and I pledge to seek solutions other than alcohol to my psychological pain and unhappiness. And, today, the solution is no farther away than a local AA group. Today, I make the call. And our common journey continues.
Step by step. – Chris M.
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