Post by caressa on Aug 1, 2011 8:50:02 GMT -5
Once you become an alcoholic there's no going back - a frog never goes back to being a tadpole. ( Or a pickle a cucumber etc. )
- Unknown origin from Alkie Speaks
Never heard it said like this before, although I have heard, once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.
I do and can recover from that hopeless state of mind and body through the 12 Steps, yet my disease is progressive, even when I am not using. If I was to pick up, after all this time, I would start where I left off, if not worse than I was when I quit many 24 hours ago.
I am still of a firm belief, that I can't use my alcohlism to excuse bad behaviour and justify bad manners and old ways of thinking. Recovery is about change. Changing me. I am given the tools, it is up to me to be responsible and pick them up.
I am a grateful alcoholic in today. Without my disease, I would never have found this program. It isn't a thing to mourn but a thing to celebrate.
- Unknown origin from Alkie Speaks
Never heard it said like this before, although I have heard, once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.
I do and can recover from that hopeless state of mind and body through the 12 Steps, yet my disease is progressive, even when I am not using. If I was to pick up, after all this time, I would start where I left off, if not worse than I was when I quit many 24 hours ago.
I am still of a firm belief, that I can't use my alcohlism to excuse bad behaviour and justify bad manners and old ways of thinking. Recovery is about change. Changing me. I am given the tools, it is up to me to be responsible and pick them up.
I am a grateful alcoholic in today. Without my disease, I would never have found this program. It isn't a thing to mourn but a thing to celebrate.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.