We Admitted We Were Powerless

That Our Lives Had Become Unmanageable

Powerless? Unmanageable?

“We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker.”

Craving didn’t do it for me as far as definitions go. The good Dr. Silkworth put the “screws” to me in the next sentence;

“These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.”

A habit that cannot be broken. Yep, now that makes perfect sense to me. Endless problems without solutions. Yep again… Powerless and unmanageable.