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Originally Posted by paulmh

I have always loved the line "relieve me of the bondage of self". It's funny, so many people who don't want to use AA say "I'm not powerless!". Certainly I did. At the same time I was full of anxiety, self-hatred, grandiosity, anger, depression, resentment. I had a racing brain, filling up with thoughts all the time about what other people thought of me, my opinions of them, my emotional state and how other people didn't seem to give it the weight it deserved.

In other words I was actually powerless over my own self. In a constant stream of various states of unhappiness, all visited by me, upon me! I look back and I think - madness. Utter madness.

Wow. You nailed it for me.