So now the therapist says I am to go to five AA meetings a week?
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Well verbal contracts are binding too...so if the rehab committed themselves to offer an alternative to AA they will have too or your deal with them in invalid. You say your in duel treatment, maybe they can start a DRA meeting there or be taken to one. A DRA member can object to the spiritual stuff and still be within their rights as a DRA member to do so.
Above all I get your point that you don't want AA as a part of your treatment. And even DRA may be too closely related to AA for you, as DRA uses 12 steps. The DRA steps are different but not that different from AA's 12 steps. But then again as a DRA member you can choose whatever healing path you want to and not work the steps.
I hope you can come to some mutual understanding with the rehab and get the treatment you expected to get from them.
Above all I get your point that you don't want AA as a part of your treatment. And even DRA may be too closely related to AA for you, as DRA uses 12 steps. The DRA steps are different but not that different from AA's 12 steps. But then again as a DRA member you can choose whatever healing path you want to and not work the steps.
I hope you can come to some mutual understanding with the rehab and get the treatment you expected to get from them.
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I'll pray about it. BWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Just kidding, Katie. Just pretend you believe in the Easter Bunny for awhile then when they let you out of 12 step jail seek out non-bunny alternatives.
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My question is, where are these rehabs that offer treatment other than AA? Do they even exist. Just asking out of pure curiosity. If you are in a 12 step rehab and don't go to the meetings, how are you going to get well? You aren't. This really makes no sense. It is a waste of money because AA is free. All I can say is try to make the best of it.
This is healthy thinking, Katie. Try to turn this into something positive. Things happen for a reason. Maybe you ended up where you are so you could find some resolve. That would be very beneficial for you. You and your old way of thinking are putting up the road blocks to your recovery. Clear your mind and the road blocks disappear. Keep up with that way of thinking. That is a great start to sorting through the cobwebs of the past.
I just had a thought. This might be the best therapy I ever had. This forces me to deal with anger - without picking up a drink, deal with deception - without picking up a drink, deal with the realization that I was bamboozled - without picking up a drink.
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Just sit back and relax. Play the game. Build up your strength. Stay off dope. Use your time to get well. You ain't gotta believe in all the crap you don't wanna believe in. I know it sounds hokey...all that chanting and stuff....but just try and get better. Good luck !!
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Originally Posted by LosingmyMisery 
My question is, where are these rehabs that offer treatment other than AA? Do they even exist.
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Originally Posted by zencat
Well verbal contracts are binding too...so if the rehab committed themselves to offer an alternative to AA they will have too or your deal with them in invalid. You say your in duel treatment, maybe they can start a DRA meeting there or be taken to one. A DRA member can object to the spiritual stuff and still be within their rights as a DRA member to do so.
Above all I get your point that you don't want AA as a part of your treatment. And even DRA may be too closely related to AA for you, as DRA uses 12 steps. The DRA steps are different but not that different from AA's 12 steps. But then again as a DRA member you can choose whatever healing path you want to and not work the steps.
I hope you can come to some mutual understanding with the rehab and get the treatment you expected to get from them.
Above all I get your point that you don't want AA as a part of your treatment. And even DRA may be too closely related to AA for you, as DRA uses 12 steps. The DRA steps are different but not that different from AA's 12 steps. But then again as a DRA member you can choose whatever healing path you want to and not work the steps.
I hope you can come to some mutual understanding with the rehab and get the treatment you expected to get from them.
At any rate, I'm thinking, I'm thinking and trying not to panic.
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Originally Posted by LosingmyMisery
My question is, where are these rehabs that offer treatment other than AA? Do they even exist. Just asking out of pure curiosity. If you are in a 12 step rehab and don't go to the meetings, how are you going to get well? You aren't. This really makes no sense. It is a waste of money because AA is free.
This is healthy thinking, Katie. Try to turn this into something positive. Things happen for a reason. Maybe you ended up where you are so you could find some resolve. That would be very beneficial for you. You and your old way of thinking are putting up the road blocks to your recovery. Clear your mind and the road blocks disappear. Keep up with that way of thinking. That is a great start to sorting through the cobwebs of the past.
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Originally Posted by Katie09
For the record, I am NOT in denial. I know to continue drinking is going to kill me, but I really NEED other alternatives to AA.
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Originally Posted by doorknob
If the AA stuff is only 5 or so hours a week, I'd just deal with it, enjoy the other activities they have to offer, and ask them when you get to sacrifice a goat (J/K, goats are cute). 
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Originally Posted by Katie09
The whole program is based on the 12 step model, aside from a bit of therapy thrown in here and there - delivered by therapists who push the AA stuff. And now my keyboard on my laptop is going. I am really screwed.
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Hi katie,
well...i know there are what appear to be reputible treatment centers that are not 12 step based...just looking on the web...maybe you could do a search and find them? I'm not that good at searches and i found them a while back when i was intersted..but don't have the info now...it wasn't hard...
and yep...i've seen treatment centers profess one thing and do another...some of them are pretty good treatment centers, but it is very irritating when they do that. I'de be looking for a refund as well. Nothin wrong with that...
I was fed up with some lies and bs within the AA groups i attended at one point...stopped going and stayed sober another 5 years (i am not a god person btw..i think you know that but in case you didnt). Now i didnt get drunk over calling a spade a spade. I didnt' get drunk because of AA. In fact I might have been fine cept i missed one little important thing about staying sober...for me it requires that i be involved with other people (preferably alchoholics, but i suspect any one would do if need be). Course it's not the same for everyone thats just how it was for me.
I have alot of struggles in my life these days..but I guess i just try to honest about where i am at with this stuff (anger, distrust, betrayal are some things that are "where i am at" at times), and try to deal in a way that is respectful of myself and others to resolve what i can, and look for away to find a path that works for me insobriety. I still can get terribly angry and hurt and all that stuff over what i see others do especially when it impacts me! And i have to allow myself to admit to and be ok with those feelings and i ahve to respect myself enough to say what i need to say and do what i need to do in the situation. Then i move on to what will get me on the path i need to be on....but it's a process and even knowing the process i can't make it happen any faster than it happens.
Just my thoughts that came to mind reading this thread and about your situation.
Sorry you got rooked on this facility...yeah...even bad therapist actually helped me..kinda funny trying to not let them mess me up worse helped me to see that i knew more about the path i needed to take and how to do it then i had given myself credit for.
well...i know there are what appear to be reputible treatment centers that are not 12 step based...just looking on the web...maybe you could do a search and find them? I'm not that good at searches and i found them a while back when i was intersted..but don't have the info now...it wasn't hard...
and yep...i've seen treatment centers profess one thing and do another...some of them are pretty good treatment centers, but it is very irritating when they do that. I'de be looking for a refund as well. Nothin wrong with that...
I was fed up with some lies and bs within the AA groups i attended at one point...stopped going and stayed sober another 5 years (i am not a god person btw..i think you know that but in case you didnt). Now i didnt get drunk over calling a spade a spade. I didnt' get drunk because of AA. In fact I might have been fine cept i missed one little important thing about staying sober...for me it requires that i be involved with other people (preferably alchoholics, but i suspect any one would do if need be). Course it's not the same for everyone thats just how it was for me.
I have alot of struggles in my life these days..but I guess i just try to honest about where i am at with this stuff (anger, distrust, betrayal are some things that are "where i am at" at times), and try to deal in a way that is respectful of myself and others to resolve what i can, and look for away to find a path that works for me insobriety. I still can get terribly angry and hurt and all that stuff over what i see others do especially when it impacts me! And i have to allow myself to admit to and be ok with those feelings and i ahve to respect myself enough to say what i need to say and do what i need to do in the situation. Then i move on to what will get me on the path i need to be on....but it's a process and even knowing the process i can't make it happen any faster than it happens.
Just my thoughts that came to mind reading this thread and about your situation.
Sorry you got rooked on this facility...yeah...even bad therapist actually helped me..kinda funny trying to not let them mess me up worse helped me to see that i knew more about the path i needed to take and how to do it then i had given myself credit for.
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I won't doubt your goodness Katie.. if being good and honest and charitable is necessary for sobriety, then how was Bush able to get sober? Apparently he was allowed to skip the moral inventory part of the equation. At least none of us have to make amends to Iraqi orphans.
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Originally Posted by Katie09
They can always say I am a drunk and was under the influence and they never said that.
At any rate, I'm thinking, I'm thinking and trying not to panic.
At any rate, I'm thinking, I'm thinking and trying not to panic.
Thinking is good...think of all the the ways you can make this experience work for you. Be resourceful, use your creative talents...I know you have them just from reading your various post here at SR.
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