Originally Posted by
Gwizz 
Something I never got my head around when I was drinking on how selfish I really was I didn't care who I hurt didn't care how I spoke to people, and it was normally the closest to me I hurt the most.
This may sound weird but in some strange ways alcoholics are lucky in some respect especially as this is not as disease, to me its a mental illness addiction that can be cured.
Thats what I mean by being selfish, cancer patients and all other deadly diseases they don't have a cure, but every alcoholic has a cure and their cure is only down to willpower and strength.
So the question is how selfish are alcoholics?
Just my thoughts.
I think that it's dangerous for an alcoholic to think he's cured because he might think he can safely drink again. Being a recovering alcoholic is a life long commitment. You might
Recover from the mental obsession....but you are not cured. And I disagree about the will
power statement....if all it took was will power why do we have rehabs, meetings and why
are we here? Recovery needs a lot more then just will power....it needs us!