No
more get drunk here, now this two years. Seneca Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect
produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it
is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the
false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are
restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the
sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few
drinks--drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they
have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of
craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree,
emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is
repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire
psychic change there is very little hope of his
recovery. On
the other hand--and strange as this may seem to those who do not
understand--once a psychic change has occurred, the very same person who
seemed doomed, who had so many problems he despaired of ever solving them,
suddenly finds himself easily able to control his desire for alcohol, the
only effort necessary being that required to follow a few simple
rules. Big Book "The Doctor's Opinion" pgs. Xxvii &
xxix Creator keep me free from alcohol.
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