Originally Posted by
pennywistle 
I think toxic could be described as a mixture of all the kinds of emotions that don't feel good like guilt, remorse, embarrassment, sadness, anger, scared and the 'what the heck am I doing here with all these people? .
I don't that's all that uncommon.
There is still quite a bit of sigma attached to alcoholism.
Before I came to AA I looked down on
alcoholics.
Those were the pathetic losers that went beyond hard partying ( which was cool) .
So I came to AA. Learned a thing or two about alcoholism an figured out that I was like everybody in the room in 2 areas.
I couldn't quit drinking even thought I tried.
Once I started drinking ,I couldn't control.
Of course, that's the BB definition of alcoholism.
Any other similarities were not relevant.
We were all there for one reason-our common problem.