PERSONALITY CHANGE
Posted 30 October, 2007 in As Bill See's It, Meetings
It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in
alcoholism. That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change.
We thought “conditions” drove us to drink, & when we tried to correct
these conditions & found that we couldn’t do so to our entire satisfaction,
our drinking went out of hand & we needed to change ourselves to meet
conditions, whatever they were.
1. Letter, 1940
2. 12×12, p. 47
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