I've been out of AA for a while - it hasn't been my primary focus of recovery for years, but I do attend an offshoot of it called "Double Recovery" which is specifically for people with both addiction and mental health issues. It's based on the 12 steps. I only attend because, it's a safe space for me to talk about mental health recovery that I can't really do in my Women for Sobriety meetings. Normally it's facilitated by trained, in recovery, staff from my mental health club house. But with the pandemic, they've cut their number of meetings to 3 a week, which is still amazing, and they have different volunteers facilitating the meetings. There's also more people from out in the community as well as just members from the clubhouse. ok - long intro.

The issue is there's one guy, who simply can't grasp the concept of no cross talk. He's always doing it. Today I private messaged the facilitator of the on-line meeting, after he'd done it a couple of times, and from then on, the facilitator did a good job of shutting it down. I don't want to come down heavy on the guy as from what I get, he's new to recovery, and based on how he talks, I think he has some cognitive impairment possibly related to his substance use, or meds. But it's bugging me.

I'm thinking of calling the "official" facilitator, that is the contact at the clubhouse that's responsible for the meeting and say something, or is this just a case of should I live and let live?

thanks.
splitimage