What are some benefits of joing alcoholics anonymous?
Question by Wakey Wakey eggs AND BAKEY!: What are some benefits of joing alcoholics anonymous?
Im thinking of joining but why should I?
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Answer by happygael
sobriety, companionship and the opportunity to discuss your sickness with others suffering from the same illness. join if you are suffering from alcholism. it will help you in the fight against alchohol. good luck
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August 30th, 2010 at 2:23 am
a suggestion my friend, if you think or believe that you might have a problem with alcohol and can not stop yourself from getting started,then i strongly suggest that you go to an a.a.meeting.
like real pronto, before it becomes chronic, progressively worst and fatal, which can kill you. i know i have been in the same situation as yourself. i now have 12 years of sobriety and i would never trade it for the world. i do it one day at a time and i keep it simple and easy does it.
August 30th, 2010 at 2:50 am
Well, AA has the same success rate as quitting on ones own, but AA has a much higher relapse rate due to their powerless doctrine and their doctrine that you cannot do it without AA. AA is a religious cult. The suicide rate is much higher in AA than among those who quit on their own. So Id AA has the exact same success rate as quitting on your own but has higher binge drinking on relapses and suicide rate why join. I see no benefits to it. Besides the sponsor like to control every aspect of their sponsees life.
In AA you cannot have high self esteem in fact you have to believe you are a low life and are nothing without AA. AA forces you to talk about how much you miss drinking therefore you cannot ever recover because even after 25 years of sobriety you sit around talking about how much you want to drink. I see no benefit to it. I tried AA 5 months in 1991 and I nearly died there. I would not want a drink all day then attend a meeting and the way the meetings are run I left wanting to drink, so I left and did it on my own and never regretted it. It is much easier to do it on your own in my opinion. I would be feeling good about myself and my sponsor would drag me down saying it was my self love that caused me to drink and I had to realize I was just a rotton drunk and wkithout him and AA I was nothing.
August 30th, 2010 at 3:01 am
AA is a cult. It’s a religious program that tries very hard to indoctrinate you into the religion.
See a counselor first. Don’t go to AA. Those people are NUTJOBS.
August 30th, 2010 at 3:34 am
if you have a problem with drink mate, give it a go, theres nothing really you can lose. ive been in aa for 22 months, and just celebrated a year sober~ i used to drink daily.
someone said that its a fatal illness, which is very true.
alcoholism is a disease of wrong thinking, and aa helps you curb that drinking.
i hope everything goes well for you hun x
and to the idiot that said its a cult~ you evidently havent been or if you have you were so ignorant and so up your own arse because aa is not a cult, im an athiest and i go, and im not ridiculed or forced into some sort of religion. people like you make me lose faith in humanity you really do.
ive just read the post before that too… aa has saved thousands of peoples lives, mine included, maybe you were hanging around the wrong people when you were in there, i dont know. AA is not for everyone, but it is for loads of people all around the world