RE: Does anyone belong to a twelve step program?
March 13, 2014 at 9:26 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2014 at 9:29 pm by Shell B.)
(March 13, 2014 at 7:20 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: It's been shown that trying to kick addiction by one's self is about equally likely to be a success as trying to do it with a support group, so if I had such a problem, I wouldn't bother with a 12-step program.
Boo! Sources?
(March 13, 2014 at 7:36 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: That's nice, but the bottom line is your results will come from whether or not you truly want to stay clean/sober, and nothing anybody else does can change that. It would probably do you more good to speak to a psychiatrist or a psychologist about the reasons why you drink/use and work with him/her on resolving those issues than simply spilling your guts to random people.
Mental health professionals/trained professionals typically run these things. There are meetings all the time at my clinic. I don't think it is a good idea to be discouraging about stuff like this. I wouldn't presume to tell you what to do, but we're talking about people's well-being here. They should reach out for whatever help is available to them to get clean. Those random people often become their beacons in the storm, so to speak.
