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by headShrinker
2854 days ago
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If you have a problem get help. That said, AA was started by a group that had no idea about physiology of addiction but definitely understood ‘God’... It gets tons of support and money from private and government and its completely unchecked and its validity remains untested next to other methods. AA has a 13% 7 year success rate, which is pretty dismal. There are better ways to treat addiction. To be honest I don’t know of them because AA sucked all the air out of the room. I also personally don’t like it that, anytime someone demonstrates they have an a very functional understanding of drinking and their intake and can control its many facets through a multitude of different means indicating that they are in no way under some spell of blind addiction, people are still so quick and judgemental to assume they have a problem, a disease, an addition that they aren’t handling and should get help from a group of people who really don’t know what they are doing with regard to the psychology of addiction. Something no one will ever tell you is, most people go through a period of heavy drinking at some point in their lives and will miraculously let up on consumption all on their own without the help of a 12 step group. |
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AA worked for me, but only at the point that I wanted to change. Most of the people I see coming in day after day-- they're court ordered--they don't want to be there, they don't think they have a problem, so I would have no trouble believing that 13%.