Quote Originally Posted by pj View Post
Believing we have control over the situation is insanity. If we had control, we wouldn't have become addicted.
But if you don't have control, how can you realize you have a problem and choose to go to AA meetings, devoting several hours a day to trying to fix the problem? That is a form of control. I never said that it's easy to just *stop* drinking - there are complex physiological causes for addiction, and just wanting to stop is often not enough to go through with it. However, to assert that you have NO control over your own actions is bound to make you mentally weak - make you give up on yourself, believing that there's nothing you can do anyways.