Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their irrationality, can bear to face it. Some will be willing to term themselves "problem drinkers" but cannot endure the suggestion that they are in fact mentally ill. They are abetted in this blindness by a world which does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism. "Sanity" is defined as "soundness of mind." Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his destructive behavior, whether he fell on the dining room furniture or his own moral fiber, can claim "soundness of mind" for himself.
?1953 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 32-3 Reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Thought to Ponder . . .
If you think you are an alcoholic, chances are you are.
