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.
Things don't have to be bad to get worse.
N U T S = Not Using The Steps.
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