I'm big on it and into my second reading of PASS IT ON Bill. W and the AA message. This is a very good read. Give it a try. You can get the book at your AA Central Office or maybe your sponsor has it. From Page 102; "Bill listened entranced, as Silkworth explained his theory. For the first time in his life, Bill was hearing about alcoholism not as a lack of willpower, not as a moral defect, but as a legitimate illness. It was Dr. Silkworth's theory - unique at the time - that alcoholism was a combination of this mysterious physical "allergy" and the compulsion to drink; that alcoholism could not more be "defeated" by willpower than could tuberculosis. Bill's relief was immense.
As was one Jerry F as he was born both tuberculic and alcoholic.
Keep coming back.
-- Edited by Jerry F on Monday 27th of July 2015 04:36:12 PM
Thanks Jerry. It was that book and the doctor's opinion that spoke to me clearly. I was too sick to identify with anyone. AA is not for problem drinkers, it's for sick alcoholics like myself. The mental obsession ultimately makes me take a drink and the physically allergic body ensures that I do not stop. In the last 2 years of my drinking, I never caused a single problem for anyone but myself. Early in my drinking, I used to be a problem drinker. I should have stopped then without outside help. But now I need AA and it's 12 step program or else I will die of alcoholism.
How do I know? I have seen people die of alcoholism, because they failed to practice AA's 12 steps. My sponsor was one of them. If I followed him, I would have died too.
