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In this video, you'll learn about AA sponsors and why having a falling out with them is possible.

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[louiehannigan]

AA did help me in terms of the illness being an addiction but it took 2 weeks in the psych ward with psychosis to finally make me stop for good, I got the wakeup call I needed, that alone keeps me sober

[Privatenospying]

I don’t tolerate the lack of anonymity and gossip at certain meetings. It’s worth it to shop around and be vulnerable if you trust the group.

[kathleendinsmore]

It's interesting to note how Big Book thumping sponsors fail to recognize there's no mention of sponsorship in the basic text.

[CharlesHippe]

I went to AA the first day I quit drinking and it felt like a cult.

[nemesisbreakz]

I tried the AA. Wasn't for me. I tried. I think I'm more content not being around that toxic group. I remember a couple of the old timers who were suppose to be a support network prey on young women as well. And their ego was atrocious

[jayscaping]

I did 30 days of strict by the book inpatient recovery in 2020 and that was enough to drive me away from ever going to a meeting and really hone in on alternative methods. I watched people helplessly get sucked into the dogma and become convinced that they were absolutely saved and try to convince me that i was bound to fail because i was skeptical about the program

[nickpn]

Basically, it comes down to 'You disagree with me - how arrogant and sick of you.'

[rickysimms]

Haven't been to a meeting in 4 years. I'm so glad I walked from AA

[shizzerla]

One AA meeting was all it took for me to quit.
It was the most depressing night of my life.
Listening to old timers go on and on with stories that go nowhere.
The meeting focussed on how you should volunteer and how it is very important to volunteer.
They didnt get to the part where you stop drinking, just the aggressive recruitment.
Alcohol use disorder is not a disease, you are not powerless.
I can imagine becoming dependant on meetings to manage my life.
I feel sorry for people who get convinced that they can't do it without AA.
Some of the members had been going for decades!!
Alcohol still controls their lives, they just dont drink it.

Any decent therapy builds people up to be stronger and overcome their addiction.

AA convinces people they are weak and cant survive without it,
Just like any cult

[J.D]

Im with you. The problem people have with AA is the people. The program itself is very effective. I've known some AA police and they give the program and name. I've learned to use the program as a general guideline for life and its made a huge difference.

[corpsmankind]

As a combat veteran with PTSD I have been a long time medical marijuana patient. Alcohol has brought me to the hospital for attempted to take my life, marijuana takes my migraines from a TBI I got from an IED away. Alcohol had me blacking out and fighting and going to strip clubs, marijuana helps ease my anxiety and pain and eradicated night terrors of war. 14 months without Alcohol which is 14 months sober. "WE ARE NOT DOCTORS" is what you need to remind the thumper zealots. I'm in AA for Alcohol, and people judge me for marijuana while they suck down coffee and tobacco (both of which can kill you AND are mind altering).

Thank you for this video!
I replaced alcohol with running and clocked in 1200 miles in my first year of sobriety. I'm new here but Fitness is the Way!

[Chris-lzfs]

I parted company with AA for similar reasons after 10 or so years. It's like a lot of things really, has it's good points and bad points, the dark and the light but at the end of the day, as they say in the rooms, 'the door swings both ways, take what you want & leave the rest'. For me, I'm better because of it but now I'm better without it.

[gabygabriel]

Thanks for sharing this experience. The thing with people in AA - if you tell them that you are not feeling happy, they’ll tell you immediately that its your “fault” for not doing the program enough according to them.

AA is not the only solution, there are many options to recover. It is perfectly fine to listen to your initiative instead of blindly trust these unqualified individuals in mental issues.

I appreciate AA as a program, but it is not for everyone.

[matthewgattone]

There's a lot I love about aa and a lot that I think is really sick and twisted. Sober 8 years still hit meetings but don't have a sponsor just accountable to a few guys. Happy you're sober.

[elsasmum]

Hi.I so agree with you so much when you say that the only requirement for membership, is a desire to stop drinking. I have been sober for 39 years in AA.I am happy and free.I did not do my recovery through the big book and had to tell a fellow AA recently, that came around the same week as me, that more or less said I was not sober, as I had not joined the big book thumpers group .Definently a division here.We are still friends but it saddens me that I am frowned upon by these AA police.People who mind dont matter, and people who matter dont mind.Loving kindness to me matters.

[joecephus]

I have been in and out of AA since 1973, and worked in the "treatment industry" for 14 years as a second career. You provide a very balanced summation here. Thanks!

[ToddAndelin]

I think some people are so big on the one way AA street is because it worked for them and now they want it to work for you...
so its their good intentions, which are commendable.
Hope everyone can stay sober whatever pathway they choose and what works for them.

for me working out childhood experiences and exercising self compassion is what im working on right now, and even though i have taken some breaks from AA, it was AA that was the catalyst and honesty forum which has led me to having the thought freedom to explore paths outside AA.

[doublequin]

They lose it over pot whilst pouring copious amounts of coffee and huffing down cigs

[juliewillis]

I find the concept of powerlessness so harmful for me ...due to my losses.