"Few people have been more victimized by resentments than we
alcoholics. It mattered little whether our resentments were justified
or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well nursed grudge
could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful in
separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath
was always justified. Anger, that occasional luxury of more balanced
people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These
emotional 'dry benders' often led straight to the bottle. Other kinds
of disturbances--jealousy, envy, self-pity, or hurt pride--did the same
thing." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Ten, pg. 90)