paulmh

I agree wholeheartedly. AA rooms are full of this self-selecting sample of people who pretty much agree to a man and a woman that an alcoholic has to hit rock bottom before they get out. Why? Because they're sitting in rooms with people who had to hit rock bottom to get out. All the people, like you say, who didn't hit some sort of immense crash, but sorted their problem in one way or another - they're not in the rooms to disagree. So this consensus arises that because all of us had to hit rock bottom, "people" have to hit rock bottom. Thankfully the world is a much more diverse place than that. But the BB has this great phrase - "alcoholics of our type". That's me that is. I'm an alcoholic of our type. I had to hit my rock bottom.

And having gotten there, the journey back up is such a joy.