I believe that too, work always helps.
Learning disability? ahhhh, well, maybe. never considered that.
I know I have unlearn the patterns.
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It just frames it better in my opinion. Alcohol use does effect us negatively, having headaches, getting sick, etc. But people go back to it, and that sounds like a learning disability to me.
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they tell us in rehab, You allow yourself to drink.
You think you deserve it. Even the commericals says,
You worked all day, You’ve earned it.
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@anon9798425. Can you post some studies or statistics to back that claim up?
AA has had it’s critics and has weathered many attacks since it’s inception.
Ask the people who it has helped what their opinion is on the program. I’ll admit that once I was in the programs including AA, CA, and NA for awhile I believed that nothing worked better than those three programs to arrest alcoholism/ drug addiction.
I came to believe eventually that rehab or alternative treatments could work to recover from addiction too. But after reading the Big Book multiple times the philosophy of AA seemed to make so much sense and after sitting in over a thousand meetings I heard and saw so many people who were helped by AA. I’ve heard thousands of stories of recovery first hand over the years. It just makes me believe in AA even more.
I don’t think AA’s message of one alcoholic helping another is so outrageous. It’s success rate has been attacked over the years but I just know what I see and have heard firsthand. After you see so many supposedly hopeless, die hard, hardcore addicts come into those rooms and hear their stories of recovery after nothing else could help them and they were powerless to help themselves and they used for twenty or more years and than AA helped them stop it leaves an impression on you.
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This guy at AA was named dick. He was like an old skinny short bald guy with glasses really smart and witty and nerdy and typical AA guy lmao he was hilarious but he’s like Hey I’m dick I’m an alcoholic. And he got the loudest and most emphatic “HEY DICK!!!” Ever.
And then next week I see him again I had the nerve to ask him what his name was he’s like “it’s dick, Jon”. I’m like oh yeah. He was a nice though lol
anything is poisonous if you take enough
ld40 or whatever
once a day or even once a week may be too much depending on ur unique mental and physical makeup
even though you may not be poisoning your body acutely, you may be doing so to other aspects of your life and personality (relationships, habits, work, etc)
so everything is connected
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Yes it absolutely is, it’s a mental illness like any other. An extremely difficult one maybe one of the toughest out there.
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This is a good article about it.
And here’s one about why it’s misleading to call it a disease.
https://www.peele.net/lib/truth_1.html
And this is a newer scientific article about why natural recovery from addiction is more common than recovery following treatment.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03035.x
Thus, the majority of those who get better do so without treatment.
This is a great conversation.
I’d agree with a certain slant. Addiction is a different beast for sure and it’s different for everyone.
It does need a different way of looking at it because the basis of the matter is quite different statistically.
I’ve a source but I need to find it and it was based on a interview of a book about the opiod crisis and it was a while ago!
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