Other Troubles Appeared to Disturb Me

I drank to excess because I would not or could not take responsibility for my life. I did not use alcohol as a means of "escaping from myself," but as a means of avoiding the pain of taking responsibility for myself. Previously I had wanted people to take the responsibility for my resentments, intolerance and egocentricity. When they refused, I turned to alcohol in an attempt to obliterate these self-created maladjustments. And so, I became an alcoholic.