Do you?
Who cares to admit complete defeat?
Practically no one, of course.
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.
It is truly awful to admit that glass in hand, I have warped my mind into such an obsession for destructive drinking/thinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from me.
What has helped me greatly is to look for the spiritual principles in recovery.
My experience has been, to learn APPLICATION OF THESE PRINCIPLES in the moment I'm in. Head knowledge gets me nowhere.
BTW, what unmanageable means to me: MY THOUGHT LIFE, SOBER.
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Copyright 1981 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
from Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions, pg 21