During acute depression,
avoid trying to set your whole life in order all at once.
If you take on assignments so heavy that you are sure to fail,
then you are allowing yourself to be tricked
by your unconscious.
Thus you will continue to make sure of your failure,
and when it comes you will have another alibi
for still more retreat into depression.
In short, the 'all or nothing' attitude
is a most destructive one.
- Bill W., Letter, 1960.

Thought to Ponder....

Pain is what I walk through.
Misery is what I sit in.

Recovery Related Acronym

I S M = I Sabotage Myself.