A - It is possible that about half our members, had they not been drinkers, would have appeared in ordinary life to be normal people. The other half would have appeared as more or less pronounced neurotics ( N.Y. State J. Med., Vol.44, Aug.1944)
Q
- What is alcoholism?
A
- Alcoholism is a malady; that something is dead wrong with us
physically; that our reaction to alcohol has changed; that something
has been very wrong with us emotionally; that our alcoholic habit has
become an obsession, a obsession which can no longer reckon even with
death itself. Once firmly set, one is not able to turn it aside. In
other words, a sort of allergy of the body which guarantees that we
shall die if we drink, an obsession of the mind which guarantees that
we shall go on drinking. Such has been the alcoholic dilemma time out
of mind, and it is altogether probable that even those alcoholics who
did not wish to go on drinking, not more than five out of one hundred
have ever been able to stop before A.A.
(Yale
Summer School of Alcohol Studies ©, June 1945).
Bill
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