"We learned we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics, this is the first step of recovery. The delusion that we are like other people or presently may be has to be smashed."
This passage came straight out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in Chapter 3 More About Alcoholism on the first page of the chapter. The entire chapter is about denial and how we, as alcoholics, were in constant denial about our condition. I know I was for a while. When they told me about the disease process while in treatment at Quapaw House in Hot Springs, Arkansas ( www.quapawhouseinc.org ) it changed my life.
The chapter also goes on to talk about, "...by every form of self deception and experimentation, we tried to prove ourselves exceptions to the rule therefore non alcoholic."
Then the chapter goes on to talk about all the ways in which we tried to stop drinking which was switching from liquor to beer, coke to heroin, speed to xtc, etc. The chapter More About Alcoholism also has the different ways in which we tried to believe the lie or the obsession.
In the top of the first paragraph in the chapter it talks about the Obsession, Illusion, Delusion, and Insanity. "The Great Obsession of every abnormal drinker is the persistence of this illusion is the delusion that we are like other people which leads to the insanity of the first drink."
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Check it out it is right there in the book. You can read the Big Book at www.aa.org check it out today!
The definition of Concede is to surrender.
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