We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad.
Basic Text, p. 16
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For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered? Why did we do so many crazy, self-destructive things? Why did we feel so badly about ourselves so much of the time? And how had our lives gotten so messed up? We thought we were hopelessly bad, or perhaps hopelessly insane.
Given that, it was a great relief to learn we suffered from a disease. Addiction that was the source of our problems. A disease, we realized, could be treated. And when we treat our disease, we can begin to recover.
Today, when we see symptoms of our disease resurfacing in our lives, we need not despair. After all, its a treatable disease we have, not a moral dilemma. We can be grateful we can recover from the disease of addiction through the application of the Twelve Steps of NA.
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Just for today: I am grateful that I have a treatable disease, not a moral dilemma. I will continue applying the treatment for the disease of addiction by practicing the NA program.
-- Edited by Dave R on Monday 5th of September 2011 05:42:42 AM
I understand what this passage is saying but I think it could be worded a little better. A moral dilemma is a difficult ethical choice, e.g. trying to pick the lesser of two evils. That's not really the concern here. The concern is that some of us may have thought we had a moral deficiency or weakness of character, such that we had to do bad things. What we have is a treatable disease that made us do bad things, not a moral deficiency. We are sick people trying to get well. We are not hopelessly bad.
Theres a lot of physcology behind why and what we did and do.
I found something once that explained pretty simply. most of us didnt get what we NEEDED as children which in turn we grabbed SELFISHLY for what we thought we needed. its more complicated then that, I made it simple for myself and that about covers it, my personal explanation.
I became immoral I wasnt born that way, I , we were all born innocent, in many ways its not our fault we're addicts but the bottom line is we're still responsible.
The program is life long, many many things will come up , creep in that we need to work on and its hard to stay diligent, this gets tiring, right now IM F'n TIRED of working on me why i cant i work on the rest of the world LOL fix it ? them? whys it always gotta be me that needs repair ? but thats what our higher power is for to lay this stuff down on and ask for guidance and help , it comes we have to be very very very very patient and we need to be selfess to get us out of ourselves.
THIS AINT ALWAYS EASY and if you think its gonna be or expect it to be your wrong but then im a fighter, the less you fight and the more you accept and turn your will and life over to God the better off your going to feel and be.
