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.