Not to malign those who have found strength in AA because each person needs to find what works for them. It does bother me that AA is shopped around as the only cure. Many of us just plain quit after living through the train wreck of a life that could be achieved by using alchohol.
I don't believe there is a cure and AA is treatment.
And, many just walked away from it after seeing the wrecks.
Bless the friend(s) who help keep these lamps lit.
One huge problem of the alcholics is that they fool themselves into thinking that they can quit or cut back or that there is no problem at all. AA believes they know a treatment that can work. They are not sure of any other methods but they have seen a great deal of things that don't work.
AA makes no money of its members. It just exists to try and help. I am sure if somebody finds a way that works faster and easier and longer and surer, AA will adopt it.
And look at all the 30 day dry out places that charge so much and do so little. They use all the doctors and all the medicine. And I have never seen one work.
Good for you, however, drinking is only an action to character defects that need to be addressed. It's 10% drinking, 90% thinking.
You couldnt be more wrong.
I can agree with that but I also believe that if you are an alcoholic and successfully quit, then you are working a "program" of your own design.
Whatever works.
I'm not sure that's what most AA members really believe. I know they believe it for themselves, but having many family members and friends who attend AA I've never heard them say more than AA is the only thing that would have worked for them.
It does bother me that AA is shopped around as the only cure
Sorry to respectfully disagree, AA is not the only solution and anyone in AA who shopping this idea around is mistaken. Many people have found the solution in other ways, however for us it worked. Sober since 5-20-1995.