Help. Questions about AA, and my mom has cancer
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
At the end of my drinking....all the fun bottles were empty
Depression was daily and I detested the woman I had become.
It was a dark time in my life.
Here is a link to the book that convinced me to quit...
not everything applied to my drinking....but it opened my eyes
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...influence.html
That is when I made recovery a priority and re- connected to AA.
It turned out to be an awesome adventure and the best idea I ever had.
Depression was daily and I detested the woman I had become.
It was a dark time in my life.
Here is a link to the book that convinced me to quit...
not everything applied to my drinking....but it opened my eyes
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...influence.html
That is when I made recovery a priority and re- connected to AA.
It turned out to be an awesome adventure and the best idea I ever had.
Member of SMART Recovery
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,722
Wind,
The fact that you are willing to try anything tells me that you are likely to succeed. Frankly, no program will be successful if you don't intend to quit drinking, and any program or approach will indeed be 100% successful if you do have that intention and follow through with it. In fact, from what I've seen in my nearly 14 years of sobriety, programs don't succeed or fail: people do.
But with that said, there are many different approaches to quitting an addiction and the key is to choose the one (or combination) that fits you. That may mean nothing more than writing here and receiving the vast support offered here. It may mean a program, but that program does not have to be AA. It could also be SMART Recovery, SOS, LifeRing, Women for Sobriety etc. It could be following the AVRT philosophy.
If this seems like a lot, just keep in mind that when it comes to your recovery, the only success rate you have to worry about is yours: you quit, and your success rate, like mine, is 100%.
The fact that you are willing to try anything tells me that you are likely to succeed. Frankly, no program will be successful if you don't intend to quit drinking, and any program or approach will indeed be 100% successful if you do have that intention and follow through with it. In fact, from what I've seen in my nearly 14 years of sobriety, programs don't succeed or fail: people do.
But with that said, there are many different approaches to quitting an addiction and the key is to choose the one (or combination) that fits you. That may mean nothing more than writing here and receiving the vast support offered here. It may mean a program, but that program does not have to be AA. It could also be SMART Recovery, SOS, LifeRing, Women for Sobriety etc. It could be following the AVRT philosophy.
If this seems like a lot, just keep in mind that when it comes to your recovery, the only success rate you have to worry about is yours: you quit, and your success rate, like mine, is 100%.
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