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Re: Non-12 Step

Posted by alexandra_k on November 2, 2005, at 18:20:46

In reply to Re: Non-12 Step » ClearSkies, posted by verne on November 2, 2005, at 17:12:12

I'm wary of a lot more besides too...

I don't see how total abstinence is the one and only answer.

It may well be an answer that a person comes to, it may well be the best answer for that person but I don't see why that is considered to be the only answer.

(The reasoning I've heard is that one must admit one is completely powerless over the addiction - but I don't see why this is required either).

I also don't much like the ideas of counting off the days... Becuase then a relapse is seen as a failure (more to beat yourself up over) instead of seeing just how much you have reduced your intake and how proud you should be of your ability to manage your own affairs (YOU did it, not your higher power).

I dunno...

I guess teh AA folk came along when nobody else would work with people having troubles with addictive behaviours. They worked with people when nobody else would and so that is terrific.

But...

I think they need to move with the times rather
And realise there is more than one way to rome

And I think the state needs to stop funding religious messages in the name of social services

And I think the state needs to stop taking some of those messages (ie about addiction being a disease when it is not - which is NOT to deny there is a heritable componant) when there is little empirical evidence to support that...

But anyhoo...

 

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