"Sheenah" <JBcatRB@coldman.com> wrote in message
news:d9j6up$vik$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk
> "Today, I am an alcoholic. Tomorrow will be no different. My
> alcoholism lives within me now and forever. I must never forget
> what I am. Alcohol will surely kill me if I fail to recognise and
> acknowledge my disease on a daily basis. I am not playing a game in
> which loss is a temporary setback. I am dealing with my disease,
> for which there is no cure, only daily acceptance and vigilance" -
> Daily Reflections, page 252 .
>

Fortunately for me, recovery *eventually* meant freedom from daily
obsessing in fear of alcohol.

Accepting the reality of my reactions to alcohol, and having, as a
result of the steps, established my choice not to drink; I don't
drink alcohol.

It's remained that simple, for me.

Bob

In 1960 at a convention of the National Clergy Conference on
Alcoholism, Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics anonymous said: “We
have never called alcoholism a disease because, technically speaking,
it is not a disease entity ... “