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Originally Posted by Kendyll
Around here, you can always just say "I'm glad to be here and I pass". I know AA is working on a pamphlet about mental illness and recovery - maybe that will help other people understand a little better. I hope!!
You say you're multiple? Would it be helpful if it was one of your alter's "job" to go to meetings, then let the others know what was learned? DH had that when he was really separate - Jonathan would handle going to meetings to take the load off of "everyone", and he could check out the folks there to find a couple who were "safe". Do you have anyone in your system who could do that for you?
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Great about the AA pamphlet on mental illness; I'm having that problem at the church I attend,--endlessly, forever trying to explain, etc. At mtg. today we read BB story of lady "legally blind", I spoke saying I felt the same way as she did, "From the very beginning I felt different and unwanted,I came to the conclusion I was bad...."I said I was a grateful alcoholic because my alcoholism gave me the opportunity to come to AA, and that it's the only place in the entire world I feel fully comfortable; everywhere I go I'm an anomaly, I'm the oldest at AA (84), longest sobriety (43 yrs.), I lived in a community where I was the only one of my race, and at church, no one talks about their mental illness or alcoholism, so I feel unique. I hold onto the God of my understanding, He made me, He love me, He will help me.