Originally Posted by
mandypandy 
Yes, while you continue to do it. Once you discontinue it, no. Then, the addiction abates, and you can be your TRUE self. I agree, when you are dancing to addictions tune, which is down to craving the drug, you are those things you stated.
Once you break yourself free, you are NOT that person. You become your own master and not the slave. The things you state is "true" is AA thinking. "We" all don't subscribe to AA thinking
"We" being..all addicts..in AA
That's interesting. I have honestly never attended an AA meeting nor read any of their literature. Well maybe I have read some but not a lot.
And I'm not saying your not the master of your destiny. I'm talking more about traits one inherits.