Our AA brother said, “Victimhood is at the heart of a claim to being complicated. Like the famous comedian saying, the devil made me do it, we whine; you must understand; we are complicated.
“We addicts are no more complicated than anyone else. We are simple, and our problem is simple: we drank too much. We are people with a simple but powerful allergic reaction to our drug of choice. It is a simple pathology. AA is not a simple program for complicated people; it is a simple program that looks complicated, and it is for simple people who like to think they are complicated.