Gately's Higher-Power impasse and Bob Death
Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you’re new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it’ll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.
Context
The AA newcomer's baseline condition defined as literally suicidal — you Come In "ready to eliminate your map" — and then recovery's omitted clause: the desperation doesn't get routed around, it gets converted into sober pain with a purpose.