Self-portrait

One isn't long in the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous before a profile of the "typical" alcoholic personality takes shape in our minds. That profile draws upon much in the Big Book and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, as well as from listening to AAs describing themselves. The negative personality traits we most often attribute to ourselves are procrastination, people-pleasing, an obsession to control people and events, perfectionism, self-centeredness, and a tendency to harbor resentments.