Re: Hi my name is ...
Gerard, I'm a recovered alcoholic.
Heres some experience strength and hope, emphasis on Hope .
I recovered by working the 12 steps with an AA sponsor.
I'm not religious , the only thing I know about God is I ain't God.
I used the religion excuse myself early on,
but if there is a God, does He want religious nuts or spiritual fruits?
I was atheist too, err...I got a bit of a surprise.
If anyone can control their intake they aren't alcoholic.
Its just that simple.
The test for alcoholism in AA is very simple, its in the big book.
"If when drinking you cannot control how much you will drink ...or...if you just can't leave it alone then you are probably an alkie."
I once stopped drinking for 5 yrs, by the end of those 5 yrs I was more insane than I had ever been in my life, stark raving sober. Screaming at other cars, you've seen em out there, probably me 10 yrs ago.
When my partner died and i started thinking suicide and the thought occured to me that I was happier when I was drinking (theres the delusional part ) so I started again and within 6 months I was being advised by a shrink to try AA.
I didn't like meetings but I learned "the program" isn't meetings, the program is actualy the 12 steps. And thats what I did, it took 2 weeks and I've never looked back, I still attend the occasional meeting. My reason to go is to carry the message of recovery. My purpose is to guide others through the steps.
Its interesting that 97% of those in AA meetings have never tried the steps, so what you might hear in AA is very likely to have nothing to do with our solution.
Many languish for yrs in meetings, not getting sane and mistakenly thinking science is gonna come up with a magic pill. There is no God pill.
If they invented one I wouldn't take it, no pill could undo the damage and harm I caused others the way I undid it by making direct amends and asking their forgiveness. Theres no dodging that.
Listen to this, good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA
Gerard, I'm a recovered alcoholic.
Heres some experience strength and hope, emphasis on Hope .
I recovered by working the 12 steps with an AA sponsor.
I'm not religious , the only thing I know about God is I ain't God.
I used the religion excuse myself early on,
but if there is a God, does He want religious nuts or spiritual fruits?
I was atheist too, err...I got a bit of a surprise.
If anyone can control their intake they aren't alcoholic.
Its just that simple.
The test for alcoholism in AA is very simple, its in the big book.
"If when drinking you cannot control how much you will drink ...or...if you just can't leave it alone then you are probably an alkie."
I once stopped drinking for 5 yrs, by the end of those 5 yrs I was more insane than I had ever been in my life, stark raving sober. Screaming at other cars, you've seen em out there, probably me 10 yrs ago.
When my partner died and i started thinking suicide and the thought occured to me that I was happier when I was drinking (theres the delusional part ) so I started again and within 6 months I was being advised by a shrink to try AA.
I didn't like meetings but I learned "the program" isn't meetings, the program is actualy the 12 steps. And thats what I did, it took 2 weeks and I've never looked back, I still attend the occasional meeting. My reason to go is to carry the message of recovery. My purpose is to guide others through the steps.
Its interesting that 97% of those in AA meetings have never tried the steps, so what you might hear in AA is very likely to have nothing to do with our solution.
Many languish for yrs in meetings, not getting sane and mistakenly thinking science is gonna come up with a magic pill. There is no God pill.
If they invented one I wouldn't take it, no pill could undo the damage and harm I caused others the way I undid it by making direct amends and asking their forgiveness. Theres no dodging that.
Listen to this, good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA
