Personality change

 

It has often been said of AA, that we are interested only in alcoholism.

That is not true.

We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive.

But anyone that knows the alcoholic personality by first hand contact knows that no true "alkie" ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change.

We thought conditions drove us to drink and when we tried to change these conditions and found that we couldn't do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking became out of hand and we became alcoholic.

It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions whatever they were.