The process of taking someone through the 12 steps - Sex Stories

The process of taking someone through the 12 steps

... believe there is no middle-of-the-road solution. Page 26 He seemed quite rational and well-balanced with respect to other problems. Yet he had no control whatever over alcohol. Why was this? More insanity Page 26 He seemed quite rational and well-balanced with respect to other problems. Yet he had no control whatever over alcohol. Why was t Recovered, that word recovered again… Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing. I must Have at this time to find a key Talk about him and how he did it and share Page 30 No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be mashed. 1 Relate some of your experiences… 2 find out more about them… We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals-usually brief-were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. Page 31 By every form of ...

... self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. If anyone can do a right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him. Heavens knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like other people! All this powerlessness What are we missing? Ask them if they are alcoholic and refer back to the definition Ask them if they are not a practicing it today We do not like to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can quickly diagnose yourself. Step over to the nearest barroom and try some controlled drinking. Try to drink and stop abruptly. Try it more than once. It will not take long for you to decide, if you are honest with yourself about it. It may be worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition. Do they want to do it…? Page 33 Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservations of any of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol. Several of our crowd, men of thirty or less, had been drinking only a few years, but they found themselves as helpless as those who had been drinking twenty years, To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have. Page 34 Though you may be able to stop for a considerable period, you may ...