Has anyone ever attended AA?

Answer 1

yes y? what did you want to know?

Answer 2

I did, I wouldn't suggest it for anyone. I bounced in and out of the rooms for 20 years, never putting together more that a few months sobriety at a time. Finally, five years ago, I took responsibility for my alcoholism, got help for the depression that caused me to continue to drink, turned my back on AA, and stayed sober.

The idea of support sounds good, but not when the "friends" are little more than a religious program that is more interested in swelling their ranks and feeding people faulty, often dangerous, information.

The first step in AA to to admit that you are powerless, the second and third are only God can fix you. God (if He exists) does not perform miracles on demand. People respond better to EMPOWERMENT, seizing control of their lives.

AA works for about 5% of the people who go, 95% leave in the first year, and many who do go get worse. The Brandsma study showed that people who attended AA were 4 times as likely to engage in binge drinking as those who tried quitting on their own: http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html

Here's some practical tips on quitting or cutting back: http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrinkTooMuch.html

Answer 3

i went once with a friend who was a drunk,and what i found that they all told thier stories and what they drank,ect..if i was a drunk it would have made me thirsty.like being a sex addict and listening to some hot chick tell in detail all the dirty things she would do with any guy that asks.i guess it works for some folks,but years later my friend still drinks like a fish.

Answer 4

Oh yes, bit too religious for me, and I'm still struggling, but works for some.

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