Alcoholics Anonymous
has played an important role in my recovery. I have set aside these pages for information
on the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is a privately
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and is not affiliated or approved by AA as a whole.
What is alcoholism?
If, when you honestly want to, you
find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the
amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. If that be the case, you may be suffering
from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer.
Do you think
you have problems with your drinking?
If anyone who is showing inability to
control his drinking can do the rightaboutface and drink like a gentleman, our hats
are off to him. Heaven knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like
other people!
Here are some of the methods we have
tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never
drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never
drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy,
drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip,
not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more
physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums,
accepting voluntary commitment to asylums, we could increase the list ad infinitum.
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.
Though there is no
way of proving it, we believe that early in our drinking careers most of
us could have stopped drinking. But the difficulty is that few
alcoholics have enough desire to stop while there is yet time.
We have heard of a few instances where people, who showed definite signs of alcoholism,
were able to stop for a long period because of an overpowering desire to do so.
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