Any positive experience with AA?I've kind of stopped drinking daily in the last year, but I still have 3-4 day benders every month or so. I think that going to their weekly meetings would help me keep my benders in check.
go for a month see what you think... I think their whole shit is corny, but whatever you want to tell yourself... I had to go to rehab for 5 weeks because my parents found out I had done 2C-BFeels like all of it is reinforcement learning, to get you to leave your old habits but at the same time everything they tell you sounds like propaganda/poison. I found myself in situations after i left where i felt shitty for no reason, because of having gone there. Be prepared to "catch" alcoholism if you cant quit on your own. (social pressure, stigmatization, lonelines)
>>33924684if you don't want to drink just stop drinking retard, all those "therapies" are for drama queens that need attention
>>33924684I feel like they sort of promote addiction by removing your sense of self-efficacy
>>33925888Wow, stop the presses, you've just solved like every addiction ever.
>>33924684It's a cult. AAfags are some of the cringiest most self-righteous people that exist.
>>33926431>i'm an addictyou're not an addict, you're a woman wannabe. you never even saw a real alcohol addict
>>33924684Even more helpful than the weekly meetings is the call-a-friend-when-you're-tempted-to-drink element.
>>33926541A coworker of mine went thru this. If you always drink Friday night, AA won't make you stop. You can decide to stop, and then stop. But now what do you do on an empty Friday night... well... he could drink just one... naah ... what worked for him was going to a friday night meeting instead of a friday night bar. If you just randomly get drunk or are drunk 24x7 that advice is not going to help.Like churches there are no perfect organizations but it beats the alternative of not going and the people who hate the orgs the most tend to be total disasters. Overall AA was pretty good for my buddy.
