Originally Posted by
daredevil 
I am glad it worked for you, tomsteve. But the steps only offer recovery from alcoholism. That is it. Your nascent understanding of the AA program of recovery is odd, given how often you tout it.
To say that the steps offer anything more than recovery from alcoholism, i.e., a panacea for life, is factually incorrect.
Life is what you make of it, AA and sobriety in general gets you out of the depths of hell. Reality can be just as bad, or pure bliss. That is all your decision.