Going it alone

... There are a thousand forms of denial in recovery but the one denial that has always doomed me to failure and relapse is trying to stay sober unaided and alone. I don't think I will ever be smart enough to go it alone because addiction has formed a partnership with my brain. My brain has been compromised. It seems that way because it is that way. Maybe not for others and all, but for me that is the way it is. It is.


from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 28)