Behind a successful man is a good man l glad your sober betty ford was a good example

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A lot of therapists blame the client if the client struggles, saying the client wasn't willing to do the work even though therapists advertise themselves as having a solution

It’s really sad that we don’t have a better option for people who are trying to quit drinking, that need social support but the only main option in a lot of places is AA. Sure it’s helped many but what about all the other people who were turned off by it and without that social support drank themselves to death? Many people don’t understand the point of listening to other people’s drinking stories at EVERY SINGLE MEETING. Give it a rest already. Some people don’t want to hear that crap everyday. I get it’s to reinforce the consequences of drinking but when that’s all they do at meetings it’s very limiting and could be so much more.

Mike is a Amazing guy! Please listen to him, he is a amazing guy

When you look at the steps of AA, it's easy to see that what it's simulating is an enlightenment experience. As with any spiritual practice, it's easy for those involved to get dogmatic and stupid about it. What AA does is help the problem drinker reframe their issue mentally, and AA is NOT required in order to achieve that reframing. When Mike said "I've got to do it for myself", he achieved a crucial step of that reframing. If you're an alcoholic, you don't necessarily need AA, what you need is to admit that this shit is totally out of control, like the documentary said, it's not a matter of willpower. That requires humility that the alcoholic mind is usually severely lacking. Alcohol rewires the brain, and as we have all seen with alcoholics, they develop an external locus of control. Meaning that they begin to externalize all of their issues. Every problem they have is the result of someone or something else. The classic victimization process. So long as the external world is blamed, there is no hope. So long as personal culpability is not acknowledged, the victim mentality persists. I would strongly suggest that problem drinkers incorporate Stoicism into their toolbox. Medication can help you get there, doing it for someone else can help you get there. but from my experience in the long term they can't keep you there. Shaming doesn't help, to be sure, but as we have seen in the years since this documentary, substance abuse has exploded in our society. My fear is that we collectively see these issues in a pathetically simplistic manner. We're sick of the giant homeless camps, and instead of widening our approach, we'll say "well that didn't work" and simply flip to the extreme persecution of addicts. I'm going on 8 years alcohol free. Not everyone's road to recovery is the same, but the underlying issues are. AA is one of several tools that I have utilized on my journey, and I still attend a meeting every few months. I hope that this information can help an addict or their loved ones, but ultimately I wrote it for myself. If you read the whole thing, thank you, I'm open to discussion on the matter.

Congratulations to this man, and the woman who supported him.

I am a member of AA; I am all for scientific study, but if you exclude spirituality, the fix won't work.

i don’t vape i don’t smoke. i don’t do any of that.

I just wish people who have never actually been TRULY physically addicted to alcohol would realize it’s not just so easy as “just quitting one day” . You can’t do that when you’re truly addicted. You’ve got to wean, use medication, etc. alcohol is the one true drug that you just CANT quit if you’re fully dependent, it’s dangerous, it’s fatal .

We all have a short time to live. My mother never smoked a cigarette, never took a sip of booze. Cancer came along and destroyed her slowly for 10 years before it took her. Get drunk if you want. Don't listen to the uppity folks yankin your chain, as long as you don't hurt anyone else.... It's nobody else's business.

It only works when you’re actually ready to quit, took me 5 treatments until I was actually ready to kick my meth addiction. NA and AA work if you’re ready.

I have been sober for 27 years. I did go to AA and it helps. It’s not for every one but you should try everything to get sober.

AA doesn't work for most people? I don't agree with that at all. It's a really simple program and if you follow it to the best of your ability it can and will work for you ask me how I know

Probably shouldn't have had wine every night while cooking. Keeping alcohol in the house and drinking in front of your alcoholic husband in what shoukd be a safe zone.

You know what, I am 73 yrs and the horror stories I have had about no access to washrooms. I can’t tell you all the terrible things that have happened to me because of the ignorance of employees and owners of restaurants etc. I know what you have gone through. You’re not alone!

I've been sober for 23 years, ❤and I thank AA and I still go to meetings, and I still do 1 day at a time

Why did she have alcohol in her house ?

Aha! I knew it was coming! These drugs will fix it! And you will be one it the rest of your life. Yea, AA "doesn't work for you." Yep, throw everything you have at it! $1,200 a shot?

I'm for AA! I am not for treatment using pharmaceuticals... 😮 antidepressants, antipsychotics etc. They are very, very difficult to come off of. Of course, that isn't very well explained by physicians.

I’m not fond that AA is associated with religion.

Wonderful story💞

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I quit cold turkey 5+ years ago, hours after a DMT ceremony, and I'm not the only one to break addiction through psychedelics. I had a physical revulsion to a glass of wine that same night, and chose in that moment of clarity to quit. It's been effortless since then, i simply don't want it. I wish i could package it into a therapy, i don't fully understand what clicked, but i know that at some level i needed to want to quit. I hope that government policies change to allow research into psychedelics & addiction, it's unfortunate that it couldn't be included in this program.

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2016 release.

The AA works for those who work it..

No never. No alcoholic can drink anything, not even a small drink, you WILL go back and die.

You must NOT have any alcohol in the house for any reason at all, never.

Gp never offered any kind of help ever even if you beg for it, in UK.

Aa na saved me in 1992. Still cluless alot of fear. I recovered. 6yrs sober. I moved far away. Life was good. So i drank again for 3yrs. A mess. Sober again 2001 in a new country. Aa na really saved me. I recovered. So i drank again. Great part of my life. 2007 i paid off a property and i celebrated with champain. Aa two months. Left aa. Drunk 15yrs. Now sober 4 months. No aa na.

It’s always bugged me how these AA types feel the need to go out and recruit people when they’re at they’re lowest. Like, can’t you just leave people alone and let them be themselves?

Grateful for celebrating 6 years this past December 17th!! #wedorecover

The thing that makes this story so alarming is that there was wine in the refrigerator. Someone with this degree of alcoholism should never be afforded the temptation in their own home. It seems to me that they should have both known that.

The problem with AA is it tells you you can't get over your addiction without them and God. If you don't believe in God and can overcome your addiction without AA, it's not going to work for you.

It's unfortunate that they will not show this doc in most treatment facilities as they push AA as the ultimate solution. There is more than one way to recover.

I think what helps is realizing that it literally is poison. Ethanol. And what it does to us.

Excellent-sober 13 years- but felt the idea of relapse was not good at all- just start each day as new- thnaksMike for your story!

AA/NA work if YOU work it.

Just got back from a celebration of life for a great person with 40+ yrs of sobriety in AA. There were 25 great family members and 330 grateful sober members of AA… just saying:)

He’s got ADHD. Treat that.

Dont stop before the miracle happens. And it will happen.

Gabapentin nearly killed me

Why is the background music louder than the narrator?

If you have a problem with any type of drug just take some mushrooms with tryptamines in them and then you'll want to quit. I've known people to quit the most addictive drugs on the planet by taking a psychedelic

Only problem with this is those tats had no other way to be “impulsive” there is another experiment where when there was a choice it was different but again I’m not the one doing experiments and how the setting of the experiments were but environment plays a huge role in addiction

AA is just a religious organization.

7:19 is why I think AA should be policed as a hate movement. It has always been a Trojan horse for converting people to Christianity.

Aaron never worked for me I have my own problems I don't need to hear others as swell. If you have anxiety disorder or suicidal anxiety disorder AA is definitely going to be tough for you

Do what works for you. Remember to keep your friends close and your enemies even closer, since your biggest enemy is yourself. You can lie to everyone else, but the minute you start believing your own lies, you might as well be psychotic. Increase unrestricted self-awareness and honesty with yourself. Maintain a program of recovery and self-discipline, whatever that means to you. Try AA/NA; Smart Recovery; Celebrate Recovery; or whatever other support group works for you.