january161992

my sister got married and then a few months later widowed

imagine if he could have kept his cancer under control by doing a simple thing like not taking 1 drink

we cant get drunk without the 1st drink

i feel grateful to have this disease

columbus

Took me a second, but yeah.

I'm coming to be very grateful for being an alcoholic, odd as that sounds.

Not just that it's a "disease" I can control, but that I'm learning so much about life.

Stuff that if I hadn't broken myself I would not have needed to learn.

48heath

I am grateful to be in Recovery and grateful to have a programme.

I have no identification with people who say they are grateful to be an Alcoholic.They certainly haven't been where I have,I put my family through hell when I was drinking,so grateful to be an Alcoholic?never.

bluedog97

I cant really relate to being grateful Im an alcoholic either. It has caused a lot of destruction in my life as well.

But, for me, I agree it's the first drink that gets us drunk. I read in another post someone say its scary how casually we often regard the first drink. Like "Oh, it's no big deal, I can quit later" or "Its no big deal, Ill just have 2-3". How many times that line of thinking has created another nightmare for me.

Im learning to regard the first drink as a life or death matter. It almost doesn't make sense. One beer? A life or death matter? But for an alcoholic it absolutely makes sense, although sometimes it's hard to accept.

August252015

P 417-418 of the BB say it best for me