Originally Posted by
DontRemember 
I agree.. This is the stuff I think about when I go to a meeting and someone is 'rambling on'.. That's the way AA does work for me. It gives me an hour in my head. Scary place at times,but I think it's better to face things now, rather than smother it with booze/drugs. It's not going away without facing it. Kinda like a bully.
I always think of it as like a wound I was scared to look at so never cleaned or changed the dressing. I just spent years slapping another elastoplast over the last one whenever the gunk started oozing through. The 12-steps gave me the strength to take those old dressings off and go find someone who could administer first aid and look at it with me.
Sorry if that's a bit of a graphic analogy lol.
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