For Alcoholic Bloggers

Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.

"Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs … began to recognize their alcoholism.… They were spared that last ten or fifteen years of literal hell the rest of us had gone through. Since Step One requires an admission that our lives have become unmanageable, how could people such as these take this Step?
"It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them. By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression."