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I would love for you to expand on this. I have a good friend who wants me to go to a meeting next week, I'm going to do it, if only to see what it's like. I agree that I might need help.
Well first I want to say that Im still drinking at this point so I dont have any good answers for you really. Basically the only people I know who drank like me and are really sober now go to AA.
I have been to 2 very highly regarded 30 day treatment programs. The first I was sent to by my mother when I was 16 and I was already drinking and using various drugs pretty heavily. This was also shortly after my father had died from cirrhosis when he was 44. Obviously I was 16 and thought it was a huge crock of ****.
The second was 3 years ago, when my wife and I decided that we both really wanted me to stop. I went and stayed sober for an extended period of time.
I really struggle with the AA concept for various reasons that I dont really feel like discussing. I decided to stop going and started drinking again.Besides a few months here and there stuggling with sobriety I have been drinking ever since.
I know alot of people who drink alot but they dont drink like I drink, and it doesnt have the negative impact on them that it does me. At this point I really truly believe that AA is the only way for people like me to not drink. I didnt want to write this really cause I didnt want to de-rail your thread into a Pro AA/anti-AA discussion like I have seen in another OOT thread.