Mcconth, I was powerless over a mouthful of alcohol once I had ingested it. My first sponsor told me this. I temporarily render myself incapable of thinking straight ("obsessions") if I don't do enough about that. The two things are different but interact.
For most of us, will run riot was amok because stunted. The early AAs were mostly people that had to rein themselves in. In our own consciousness we are usually the opposite, stunted. We need to put conscious effort into taking healthy initiatives.
Whether they are sponsoring you or not, those around you should be giving thought to what angle to give to the meaning of the typical vocabulary and slogans, to make it truly apposite to you.
I've always been a conceptual thinker so I insist on retelling myself the meaning of the concepts. Same meanings, just synonyms that I grasp better. Bill would often do that very thing in the book anyway.