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If the disease concept doesn't work for you, let it go. No one says you have to believe anything. More importantly, I have found that the 'whys' of my drinking were interesting, but irrelevant. What I needed was some practical tools for permanent sobriety. That I found in the 12 steps.
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If people didn't understand the disease part of addiction, I told them that I was at dis-ease within myself and looked outside of myself for something to make me feel better. To look out instead of inward, sounds like Step Two to me in today. The BB says according to a friend in recovery. "...that it could restore us to sanity, but doesn't promise it would."