Originally Posted by
WhiteFeathers 
If alcoholism is an "allergy" that you are born with, something like-- I want to say, celiac disease (you eat one piece of gluten and then you get sick)-- what does confessing my wrongs to someone else do? How do working the steps prevent me from picking up the first drink?
This is an inconsistency that is really creating a lot of cognitive dissonance for me and I would really love some input from people who have experience with the 12 steps.
I don't believe the BB gets into Nature vs. Nurture argument. AA's BB simply says that as a real alcoholic we suffer from a mental, physical and spiritual sickness (malady). It has been my experience that just as in the big book fixing my spiritual void through AA's solution (12 steps) has helped get me physically and mentally stronger. I should not that I am still a work in progress, lol.