Posted: Mar 22, 2011 6:07 am
DanDare wrote:My mum was an alchoholic and fought with it for 20 years before it finally killed her. She tried AA but hated it. I was able to glean some things. Mostly the developing of habitual reactions that work against the desire to drink. The grouping together with other alchoholics is also important, but tricky because you can trick yourselves in to helping one another off the wagon as often as you can support one another to stay on it.
I also gather there is no global secular organisation that handles this but a myriad of small ones scattered about. Mum ended up with a group ominously called "ward 4" and I actually had 4 years of sober with her, the memory of which I still cherish.
Rather sad, as if one must live rationally or live in a cartoon world. We need organizations for our needs.
