So, BBE, why would someone who has not drank for a couple months and got their life back on track to some extent, suddenly got out and get hammered?
It's a question I asked myself a hundred times. It's also a question that AA's Big Book describes as the 'real' problem with the alcoholic. It was (somewhat) easy for me to quit when the pressure was on. Staying quit was a whole other deal. I found exactly what those first AAers found, and it's led to many years of contented sobriety.
"After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery."
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