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- There seems to be a growing trend in my local area for getting newcomers to write a life story as their step 1. I suspect that it is something that came from treatment centres and is getting incorporated into AA.It is not something that I ask my...
- If you could give just one piece of advice to someone at their first meeting what would it be?
- Hi all,I just noticed that we have reached the 500 members mark which is great. We have here a wonderful opportunity here to receive help and support and to carry the message of recovery.I know many people feel more comfortable just coming to read...
- Need to conduct a survey - do you use hot or cold water when you are brushing your teeth?My sponsor uses hot and I use cold. She thinks I am mad, I think she is mad.Please help us to settle this, which one of us is mad??
- I recently started two topics about the mental and physical aspects of alcoholism and I have been intending to start one about the spiritual malady.For the mental and physical posts I found it pretty easy to select passages from the Big Book that...
- "The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to bring into consciousness with sufficient force the...
- "We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker." (BB...
- In simple terms my problem with alcohol can be defined in terms of powerlessness. I couldnt stop drinking entirely no matter how much I wanted to (no effective mental defense against the first drink) and when I drank I had little control over the...
- How many people here agree with making a distinction between a problem drinker/hard drinker and an alcoholic?I believe they are two different things which is why the same solution is not appropriate for everyone who wants/needs to stop drinking.By...
- I posted this as part of a response on another thread but thought it might be useful as a separate thread.Alcoholism is a 3 part illness:Physical - phenomenon of craving. We only get this when we drink alcohol. Introducing alcohol into our system...
- I just got referred for physiotherapy.Does anyone have any experience of trying this? Did it help or am I wasting my time and limited energy?Thanks.
- Hi all,Does anyone have a problem sometimes not being able to distinguish whether they are feeling hungry or whether they have nausea?I get this periodically and often find out which it is by trying to eat something and seing what happens.I have a...
- In my experience there is a big difference between just going to AA, sitting in meetings, and carrying on drinking versus actually working the 12 step solution that is offered in AA.It is a bit like going to the doctor, getting a prescription, but...
- Someone once shared these wise words with me:"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."When my actions are not having the desired results I can either keep doing the same thing over again and expecting the...
- Does anyone know if it possible to get Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for BPD in the UK, specifically in the London area?I have heard that DBT is effective in treating BPD but cant find anywhere that it is available near where i live.Thanks