Sure we get the Mental Illness stuff. Even folks around here that do not have those particular aspects have either been around or lived with folks that do.
But you have wandered into some VERY POWERFUL and VERY EFFECTIVE methods to deal with this stuff.
Do you understand WHY the Steps Programs have been around for over 100 years and are still expanding? Because they WORK. Else they would have been already tossed aside like yesterday's newspaper.
Let's Get Your Eyes on the Prize and Where You Are Heading?
Concerned for your Mental Illness? Covered.
Look at "How it Works" Chapter 5, AA Big Book -- Opening Paragraph . . .
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How it works
RARELY HAVE we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.
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If you have Honesty, and it looks like you do . . . you have EVERYTHING.
And you want to see out ahead to the outcome?
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The Promises, that are read in many A.A. Meetings can be found on page 83-84, of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous.
THE A.A. PROMISES
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and selfpity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.