Posted by greenhornet on October 26, 2005, at 10:55:17
In reply to Re: B.S amd more B..S., posted by Donna Louise on September 21, 2005, at 19:59:22
> > The Women For Sobriety group I belong to is a great place for support and recovery, based on improving self esteem and piling up the positives in our lives. (Not just alcohol, also helps with other chemical addictions.)
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> > I needed more than one meeting a week to hang on to my tenuous sobriety. Now we are getting together socially - omigod, GAD me! - during the week, to keep in touch and bolster our strengths.
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> > I don't care for their website but the face to face value has been incalculable for me.
> > CS
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> Hey CC, I am appreciating your posts very much. I have been sober in AA for 20 years somehow but I no longer feel like I belong either. At 5 years it became apparant that I had to take prozac and I had to be nearly house bound before I would do that. Thanks to good Dr. I finally took it and became able to function without drugs and alcohol. But I always felt like I was 'cheating" due to the message (that is not AA) from some who think they know the "will of god" for me! Anyway, as time has gone on I have had to take more drugs including the monster benzo and now I am sure I am judged. I like how you say you are doing it on your own terms. Only those I am closest to know but then of course I have the "guilty secret"! Agh. I wish there was a type of meeting in my area where those of us who are staying sober and taking meds could get together in an arena of support and understanding. After all that, what I meant to just ask was where do you find the women's group that you are going to now?
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> Thanks so much,
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> Donna
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I too am an "ex AA" twenty-five years in "the program, and one day I announced at the end of the meeting that I felt that I had been healed, and since I could no longer say "I am an alcoholic" I would not be back
My church has a support group for healed ex-drunks. And it is wonderful!
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