The e-AA Group

The "real" in "real alcoholic" is an adjective. A alcoholic is an alcoholic. real, unreal, total, raging, &%*$ing, or whatever adjective you want to put in there.

I think that you are reaching out here for help in trying to control your drinking is a pretty good indicator that you have a problem with alcohol. My attempts at control (just beer, only vodka, just smoking weed, Etc.,) was a complete failure.

I sobered up when I was 17 years old back in 1977. The only thing not drinking alcohol has kept me from doing all these years is not drink alcohol. Since I quit, I’ve never been arrested again, I’ve never been sent to a mental institution again, i’ve Never overdosed again, nor had to experience the ...

I sobered up when I was 17 back in 1977. My family was all to familiar with my problems because of numerous arrests, overdoses and involuntary commitments to mental institutions. Thank God for AA and The Twelve Steps. The only think not drinking has kept me from doing is not drinking alcohol. Call y...

If your Sponsor is giving you medical advise, you need to find a new Sponsor.

12 Step recovery works by doing all 12 Steps.

Blue Moon wrote:

Db1105 wrote: instead about asking a member who has been sober 55 years how they go about life.

What's remarkable to me is how many have decades of sobriety yet appear to have no clue as to how or why.

Feel better now?

Don't drink and don't die. =biggrin I concur! This site amuses me that it turns into a B.B. debate about Ebby who passed decades ago instead about asking a member who has been sober 55 years how they go about life. As I recal, the Big Book was written about 5 years in and I’ll bet they had no conce...

I love that saying. I came into recovery wanting 5 years of sobriety in 5 minutes. It helped to teach me about patience, realistic expectations, and to remember to stop and smell the flowers on the road to recovery.

I remember when I was first getting sober was to make sure I had a few dimes in my pocket along with a list of phone numbers when leaving the house in case I needed to call someone. There were phone booths everywhere. Sometimes I had to make several calls because no one had answering machines. And, ...

Recovered does not mean cured. The 12 Steps became my way of life, not work

The best response I’ve heard over the years is that non alcoholic beer is for non alcoholics.

I started drinking at 12, full blown alcoholic by 15 when I started finding myself lock up in either a jail cell or a nut house. Sobered up one month short of my 18th Birthday back in 1977.

Yup, AA is WAAAAAAY down on the list. It went well below 38 for me, but whatever number is was, I haven't had to do try anything else since I started working The Twelve Steps. One other point. AA is not free. It is self supporting though OUR OWN contributions.

Many in the Fellowship believe that their Higher Power works through other people.If someone wants to maintain their Sponsor relationship after they completed The Twelve Steps, great for them. To disparage them for it saying they are denigrating the Spiritual foundation of the 11th Step is sad.