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Old Dec 10, 2017, 08:59 AM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Originally Posted by stopchewinggum View Post
I think of AA, honestly, as more of support group than actual treatment...
...the alcoholic...is the only one can turn things around...their fate is, ultimately, in their hands.
Today's AA can be an effective "support group" for certain hard drinkers or whatever who have yet to find themselves powerless over alcohol while sober, but the original A.A. is for others such as myself who absolutely could *not* do as you have described. For people such as myself, today's AA amounts to nothing greater than "Don't drink, one-day-at-a-time" and then rinse-and-repeat between drunks until dead.
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Thanks for this!
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