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Step we are on: Step One
Chapter: More About Alcoholism
Subject: Mental Condition, Fred the Accountant, Insanity, Two Fold illness, Nervous, Pre-lapse, Relapse, Normal vs. Abnormal
Step we are on: Step One
Chapter: More About Alcoholism
Subject: Mental Condition, Fred the Accountant, Insanity, Two Fold illness, Nervous, Pre-lapse, Relapse, Normal vs. Abnormal
- What did he remember of all this?
I know little of where I went or what I said and did
Note: Have you had similar experiences, blackouts? Non-alcoholics and alcoholics BOTH experience an amnesiac effect when too much alcohol is ingested.
Many non-alcoholics, who have no problems with alcohol, can recall blacking out when they had abused alcohol in the past. (“Don’t remember a thing”.)
That is because eventually, everyone will "Blackout" with enough over-imbibing. Even non-alcoholics. It’s a human physical fact.
Many non-alcoholics, who have no problems with alcohol, can recall blacking out when they had abused alcohol in the past. (“Don’t remember a thing”.)
That is because eventually, everyone will "Blackout" with enough over-imbibing. Even non-alcoholics. It’s a human physical fact.
Blackouts are NOT symptomatic of alcoholism even though it is symptomatic of an alcohol abuse event. Some non-alcoholics blackout every time they drink!
Drinking "too much" is not a qualification either. Sometimes we hear an alcoholic attempting to qualify as “One of us” with a history of “Blackouts”.
This means nothing to a real alcoholic because everyone blacks out when they drink too much – not just alcoholics. It is simply incidental to this particular story, just as incidental as the whiskey/milk concoction in Jim's the salesman's story before it.
- Where did he wind up and with what?
Then came the hospital with unbearable mental and physical suffering.
Note: Have you suffered unbearably after drinking?
As soon as his mind cleared, what did he do?
"As soon as I regained my ability to think, I went carefully over that evening in Washington.
- Had he resisted the first drink?
Not only had I been off guard, I had made no fight whatever against the first drink
- Was he conscious of the fact he had taken a drink?
This time I had not thought of the consequences at all.
Have you ever found yourself drinking and couldn’t remember where you were or what you were doing when you took the first drink? If you haven’t had that experience and you are in a Group, ask how many have found themselves drinking but couldn’t remember where they were or what they were doing when they took the drink. This is the sure sign of OBSESSION.
Un-recovered alcoholics can no more mentally wrest themselves from the automated behavior of DRINKING than can a rabbit decide he isn't going to reproduce.
Real Alcoholics have a spiritual pain that raises an obsession to be anesthetized or else faced. And rather than face a loving God's correction - he will flee, into the arms of the obsession . . . . . to drink . . . no matter what. He feels better. For years and years, it works every time. And that is why he cannot break free from the obsession. It is preferable to death - but only for a while.
Real Alcoholics have a spiritual pain that raises an obsession to be anesthetized or else faced. And rather than face a loving God's correction - he will flee, into the arms of the obsession . . . . . to drink . . . no matter what. He feels better. For years and years, it works every time. And that is why he cannot break free from the obsession. It is preferable to death - but only for a while.
Peace & Love,
Danny S – RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
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