1. Any mental disorder characterized by temporary or permanent irrational or violent deviations from normal thinking, feeling, and behavior 2. Is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. (Basic Text Pg.23) 3. Is using drugs day after day knowing that only physical and mental destruction comes when we use. (Basic Text Pg.23) 4. Is a loss of our perspective and our sense of proportion. (Step Working Guides Pg. 13) 5. The belief that we can take something outside ourselves-drugs, power, sex, food-to fix whats wrong inside ourselves: our feelings (Step Working Guides Pg.13)
I was pondering the dialog on spirituality and realized I had without thinking about it defined sanity and insanity in my reply. Staying off vicodin is SANE. Being sane is becoming fully human. Taking a vicodin is INSANE, how I could take away my humanity.
