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Old 01-03-2011, 08:38 PM
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Antiderivative
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Powerlessness is when you continue to drink without your permission.

Powerlessness is when you continue to drink knowing that negative consequences will ensue.

Powerlessness is when you continue to drink despite it no being fun anymore.

Powerlessness is knowing that you are pissing your life away and living well below your potential, but you continue drink.

Powerlessness is knowing that you are on a self-destructive path to an early grave, but you continue to drink.

Some people can drink with impunity. Others cannot. An alcoholic may have gotten away with their drinking early on in their career, but if you are an alcoholic it will eventually catch up to you. You will invite negative consequences into your life and the disgusting part is that you bring them onto yourself.

It seems paradoxical, but the only way to win for an alcoholic is to surrender to the cold, hard, sobering truth. Alcoholics cannot drink with impunity. Our drinking in unhealthy, dangerous, destructive, and deadly.

It may not resonate with some because of denial. I never met an alcoholic who never experienced denial at one time or another. Alcoholics have a tendency to lie, minimize, and rationalize their way to another drink. It is not called an addiction for nothing.
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