“He had just left a 14 day stay at mental hospital for his drinking. He had learned a lot about his alcoholism. Now he was told he had to be on guard for those emotional triggers which made him take a drink. He was good to go. Two weeks later after running in a race, someone offered him a beer. He took it and drank it with no consideration of his “newly acquired knowledge.”
We forget things we try to remember. We remember things we’d rather forget
— Brigid Gorry-Hines
I rather appreciated your ideas about the subtle insanity which precedes the first drink, but I was confident it could not happen to me after what I had learned.
— Page 40 Alcoholics Anonymous
