Oh boy! Go find my thread about whether or not a person should be working the steps while still drinking. It was like watching a train derailment in slow motion. It was well meaning folks trying to help me get back on track, but I was self-destructing, clearly.
Because I was still drinking.
A person in the throes of the addiction is not going to be receptive to advice even if he or she asks for it.
So these "I'm back" threads... We're JOYOUS to see them back and we want to help them, but being back and going so far as to make a thread announcing that, is like walking back in to your Home Group room after however much time it was you were away, and saying My Name is... I'm an Alcoholic. This is my first meeting following a relapse.
It takes MASSIVE HUMILITY.