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

The process of taking someone through the 12 steps

... yet be a potential alcoholic. We think few, to whom this book will appeal, can stay dry anything like a year. Some will be drunk the day after making their resolutions; most of them within a few weeks. Examples over and over of powerlessness... Do you really want to stop? For those who are unable to drink moderately the question is how to stop altogether. We are assuming, of course, that the reader desires to stop. Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not. Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it-this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish. Repeat this... How then shall we help our readers determine, to their own satisfaction, whether they are one of us? The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps to the medical fraternity. Page 35 All went well for a time, but failed to enlarge his spiritual life. To his consternation, he found himself drunk half dozen times in rapid succession. more powerlessness more insanity more unmanageability Page 37 Whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity. How can such a lack of proportion, of the ability to think ...

... straight, be called anything else? But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. insanity is the unmanageability of our lives caused by alcohol look up the word sane Page 38 However intelligent we may have been in other respects, where alcohol has been involved, we have been strangely insane. share your and his experiences Page 39 But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience. Page 40 The story he told is most instructive, for here was a chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drink, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless here again powerlessness insanity Page 42 I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. Page 43 Many doctors and psychiatrists agree with our conclusions. One of these men, staff member of a world-renowned hospital, recently made this statement to some of us: What you say about the general hopelessness of the average alcoholic’s plight is, in my opinion, correct. As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help. ...