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Originally Posted by roads
(My sponsor) dropped me a year ago when she decided I oughtn't be taking psych drugs--"same as alcohol," she said as she told me it would be better to find a new group, too, "if I wasn't going to be honest about my sobriety."
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What a bunch of BS. That's why I don't advertise at meetings that I'm bipolar or am taking meds. There are always a few boneheads who don't understand mental illness or the necessity of taking meds. We both know that if we stopped taking our meds our lives would become unmanageable in a hurry! I'm fortunate that my sponsor's wife is bipolar & his father was schizophrenic; he understands mental illness & the necessity of taking meds. Other than my sponsor, it's nobody's business what disorder I have or which medications I take.
If I were you, roads (& if you even want or need another sponsor), I wouldn't disclose what meds you're taking...that's just a reality of our lives, like eating & breathing. Just going to meetings helps me stay sober...& nowhere in the first 164 pages of the Big Book will you find the term or concept of sponsors. That's just a tradition that caught on over time. You've got long term sobriety, so it's obvious that your program (with or without sponsors) is working.