How does going to AA help an alcoholic?

Answer 1

You get the support of other people that are/were in the same situation as you are.

Answer 2

First you are with many other people in the same situation you are in. These meetings were designed to have you all interact on your life as a alcoholic. By going to these meetings and having a sponser, the organizqation has been a success. The biggest factor is "you need to realize there is a problem" if not, this group will not work with you. You think you had a bad experience with the use of alcohol, there are those that are much worse and noe homeless.

Answer 3

As quoted from A.A. itself...

"Is A.A. For You?
Only you can decide whether you want to give A.A.a try —
whether you think it can help you.

We who are in A.A. came because we finally gave up trying to control our drinking. We still hated to admit that we could never drink safely. Then we heard from other A.A. members that we were sick. (We thought so for years!) We found out that many people suffered from the same feelings of guilt and loneliness and hopelessness that we did. We found out that we had these feelings because we had the disease of alcoholism.

We decided to try and face up to what alcohol had done to us. Here are some of the questions we tried to answer honestly. If we answered YES to four or more questions, we were in deep trouble with our drinking. See how you do. Remember, there is no disgrace in facing up to the fact that you have a problem."

Please visit http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org

Answer 4

It doesn't all it does is brain wash you into thinking you have a disease.If ya wanna go to AA go to church it's the same thing.

Answer 5

it won't really , they'll just tell you not to drink and drive .

Answer 6

try, people always help together.