AA Thought for the Day

March 11, 2006

A Messy Bog

If temperamentally we are on the depressive side,
we are apt to be swamped with guilt and self-loathing.
We wallow in this messy bog,
often getting a misshapen and painful pleasure out of it.
As we morbidly pursue this melancholy activity,
we may sink to such a point of despair
that nothing but oblivion looks possible as a solution.
Here, of course, we have lost all perspective,
and therefore all genuine humility.
For this is pride in reverse. . .
it is the very process by which the depressive
has so often been led to the bottle and extinction.

Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Page 45, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Things don't have to be bad to get worse.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

N U T S = Not Using The Steps.


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