Step 4 of the 12 Steps of AA - The "Relapse" Step?

Step Four: Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.

"These desires – for the sex relation, for material
and emotional security, and for companionship –
are perfectly necessary and right, and surely God-given.
Yet these instincts, so necessary for our existence,
often far exceed their proper functions. Powerfully,
blindly, many times subtly, they drive us, dominate
us, and insist upon ruling our lives. … When thus out
of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble,
practically all the trouble there is. No human being,
however good, is exempt from these troubles. Nearly
every serious emotional problem can be seen as a case
of misdirected instinct. …

"Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to
discover what these liabilities in each of us have been,
and are."

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