I love everything about Doctors Opinion because when I finally read it I was starting to get a clear picture (along with some guidance from others) as to what I was actually suffering from.
The more I studied the big book, and the more information God was helping me to string together-the better I could convey, using my personal experience, what I was reading and weave it into my shares which makes us better instruments for God.
This is why we continue to study and stay in the program-to be of Maximum service to God using our experience in hell to show the next sick and suffering alcoholic precisely how we recovered.
Only we know what it's like giving the humiliating "Frothy appeal" and truly meaning it at the time- just to turn around and drink, sometime within hours of that display and resenting the person you had to give the emotional appeal to!!
You can't improve on what is already perfect and true. What is true is what is written in the big book. It resonates with our soul on a spiritual level while simultaneously speaking to my intellect and then backs up the claim with our physical representation of our recovery in real time through our experience with the information-which is called the Scientific Method and is speaking to ALL three parts-Mind, Body and Spirit of my threefold illness.
The observable proof is how we live, do we walk the walk, and how we genuinely and proactive applying these principles in all of our affairs.
In my 12th Step, all I am asked to do is to be the physical representative/
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks ~ drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again
Interpretation through my experience:
"I LOVED the effect produced by alcohol! no matter how many times I was bitten in the a** by it, even after I did_____, I STILL would find a way to get it. I would get this overwhelming sense of impending doom or emptiness so I had no choice but to do what I knew to do which was to get fast relief. EVEN though every fiber of my being didn't want to drink and knew that there would be hell to pay, it was like I had to-and again and again....I was so confused how I could be doing this again!!"
There are zero fancy words in my very real and raw representation of my experience. When I came in I didn't need my fancy words from educated people. Honestly I needed to be spoken to in my language at the time, which was pretty limited and vulgar! If me now, had come to me then, the old me would have called the new me a dork and boring.
So when speaking to a new, newcomer-like freshly sober, I will speak to them as I would have spoken to me when I came in. Very plain and raw. "This SUCKS huh"? "I've woken up at the bottom of the shower stall after passing out with freezing water running over me all night long." "I told my boyfriend I wouldn't drink anymore and when he went out of town I got drunk and called my ex to come over"
So I can bridge the gap to the big book using my ESH as an extension of my HP until they get clear enough to get plugged into to theirs. No one wants to hear beautiful executed words in that state. They just want someone to be honest with them for once and not threaten to punish them if they don't stop drinking with their own relatable experiences.
The information/message that was carried to me came from someone who actually overcame it and seemed to have a good life-It did not from someone who read about alcoholics in a medical journal and had to memorize it to pass a test-and it didn't come from someone who was perfect and already lived a perfect life before coming it.
The message must carry depth and weight which for some of us is the experience of being knee deep in sh** and coming out on the other side clean. I didn't even want to hear "How" they recovered quite yet, I just wanted to hear that people actually do recover for a while.
An alcoholic knows the truth when they hear it-even when they don't want to hear it. It's only until they want it will it actually be received. It's not the messenger giving the message that needs to "stand out" it's the message they are giving and whether or not it rings true.
If I am honest and sincere with my experience, the person who needs to hear it will hear it. I don't have to worry about who. I say the truth as I currently understand the truth, and let it be.