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It describes how attempts to drink like “other people” become a persistent delusion, often leading to worsening relapse, demoralization, and even death. The text emphasizes admitting powerlessness as the first step of recovery and argues that there is no reliable method to restore normal drinking. It then lists strategies alcoholics try, and presents a sobriety-after-age story to show that “once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic” when drinking resumes.","Chapter 3  \nMORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM  \nost of us have been unwilling to admit we  \nweilyreanredalmalcoholentallyicsdif. Nfeo prenrsofronmlikehiss oeltlhoinkws  \nTherefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.  \nWe learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.  \nWe alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals—usually brief—were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.  \nWe are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of  \nMORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM 31  \nour kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet.  \nDespite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the rightabout-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him. Heaven knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like other people!  \nHere are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums—we could increase the list ad infinitum.  \nWe do not like to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can quickly diagnose yourself. Step over to the nearest barroom and try some controlled drinking. Try to drink and stop abruptly. Try it  \n32 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS  \nmore than once. It will not take long for you to decide, if you are honest with yourself about it. It maybe worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition.  \nThough there is no way of proving it, we believe that early in our drinking careers most of us could have stopped drinking. But the difficulty is that few alcoholics have enough desire to stop while there is yet time. We have heard of a few instances where people, who showed definite signs of alcoholism, were able to stop for a long period because of an overpowering desire to do so. Here is one.  \nA man of thirty was doing a great deal of spree drinking. He was very nervous in the morning after these bouts and quieted himself with more liquor. He was ambitious to succeed in business, but saw that he would get nowhere if he drank at all. Once he started, he had no control whatever. He made up his mind that until","cbCaimSp57tQJRWW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimSp57tQJRWW","pdf",65173,1,14,"English","en",105,"# MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM\n## Denial, obsession, and loss of control\n## The first step: admitting alcoholism\n## Progressive illness and failed “treatment” attempts\n## Self-deception methods and self-diagnosis\n## Possible early stopping vs. lack of desire\n## Case study: sobriety followed by relapse","[{\"question\":\"Why does the text say alcoholics cannot reliably regain control of drinking?\",\"answer\":\"It states that no real alcoholic ever recovers control and that intervals of regained control are inevitably followed by worse loss of control and relapse.\"},{\"question\":\"What is described as the first step in recovery?\",\"answer\":\"Fully conceding to one’s innermost self that one is an alcoholic, which requires smashing the delusion of being like other people or becoming immune.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the chapter suggest readers can diagnose themselves?\",\"answer\":\"It advises trying controlled drinking—e.g., at a nearby barroom to drink and stop abruptly—and repeating it to see if inability to control quickly becomes clear.\"}]","MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM - 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