“After completing his first step and achieving a new understanding of his powerlessness, one of my sponsees kept telling everyone in the club he was doomed. The less informed members told him he should get a new sponsor.”
Doom. You recognize Doom easily. It’s a feeling and a taste, and it’s black, and it’s very heavy. It comes down over your head, and wraps tentacles around you, and sinks long dirty fingernails into your heart. It has a stink of burning garbage.
— Gil Brewer
Much has been written pro and con, but among physicians, the general opinion seems to be that most chronic alcoholics are doomed.
— Page xxvii Alcoholics Anonymous
