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SOBER MONSTER Brought to you by your disease, whose only job is to kill you.

It's a new decade and a new millennium. Are you where you want to be? Who you want to be?

First, know you are loved. People do care. (Not me, mind you, but others. Just kidding:) If you've been active in your disease for any length of time, your relationships with other human beings has been skewed and likely suffered greatly. Also, you are probably far more insane than you realize, and no I'm not joking this time. When I got sober after drinking for many years, I knew I had difficulty with just living a day-to-day life but had no idea how "out there" I was mentally. The longer I'm sober (coming up on a decade) the more I shake my head in disbelief at some of the recollections that slowly make their way up to my memory.

From "Alcoholics Anonymous" Chapter 3: MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM

Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, 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.

We 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.(more)

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