Originally Posted by LexieCat

I've got my whole story posted over here. I wrote that about three years ago.

Actually, this sort of thing is semi-interesting, but I don't know that you can generalize too much from a handful of recovered alcoholics. Every person's story is deeply individual, just as the stories here are. There are certain common threads that often pop up, but I know a guy who got sober in prison, going to AA meetings there after his death penalty was set aside. I know other people who got sober after relatively minor events (as in my story). About all I can think of that they have in common is that there was at least some kind of emotional "bottom" in the sense that the person could not go on the way he or she was going. And I also think most of the people who ultimately succeed were willing to do whatever it took. The individual "motivators" are, well, individual.