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bluidkiti
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Age: 44
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Posts: 7079
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: Working the Steps Again and Again
THE DOCTOR'S OPINION EDITED
Men and women take the 12 steps essentially because they like the effect
produced by them. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is
helpful, they realize after a time that they can differentiate the true from
the false. To them, their recovered alcoholic life seems the only normal
one. If they stop taking the steps, as so many do, they become restless,
irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of
ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few steps - steps they see
others taking with success. After they have succumbed to the desire to work
the steps again, and they pass through the well-known stages of recovery,
emerging happy, with a firm resolution not to let their program slip away
again. This is repeated over and over, and as this person experiences an
entire psychic change there is every hope of his recovery.
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bluidkiti
Administrator
Age: 44
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Posts: 7079
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: Working the Steps Again and Again
THE DOCTOR'S OPINION EDITED
Men and women take the 12 steps essentially because they like the effect
produced by them. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is
helpful, they realize after a time that they can differentiate the true from
the false. To them, their recovered alcoholic life seems the only normal
one. If they stop taking the steps, as so many do, they become restless,
irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of
ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few steps - steps they see
others taking with success. After they have succumbed to the desire to work
the steps again, and they pass through the well-known stages of recovery,
emerging happy, with a firm resolution not to let their program slip away
again. This is repeated over and over, and as this person experiences an
entire psychic change there is every hope of his recovery.
Received in email