I understand your intent is to be helpful, DoxyMom, as is my correction to be helpful, as others have helped me. Other than wanting my mother, I wasn’t born knowing anything, my learning experience was mostly through trial and error, but I’ve also learned from my success. If I agreed with everyone and everyone agreed with me, that would be the end of MY learning process.
This is a discussion forum and in many ways it’s like f2f discussion groups, especially when one attempts to involve others in casting aspersions or where others voluntarily involve themselves in casting aspersions. I’ve seen this on forums like this, also in AA and NA. It’s what I call the “group think gang mentality”, it’s weak, sad and very dangerous for the recovering and sometimes deadly. However, I have compassion, I know why it exists, because it’s shame-based resentment which is unresolved anger turned outward. Resentment is like cutting one’s nose off, so they can bleed on others. Resentment only hurts the resentful.
AA text, page 64, “Resentment is the “number one “ offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease.”
Alcoholics Anonymous Text, Spiritual Experience “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
You wrote this DoxyMom>>>Stopping the coke is easier because there are no physical withdrawal symptoms. <<< This is patently incorrect.
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