No One to Rescue Me from My Drinking
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No One to Rescue Me from My Drinking
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#2This is a very beautiful story, but not very thought-provoking and it doesn't really offer anything new. (To me, at least)
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#3TL;DR being "You can lead a horse to fresh water but you can't make it drink."
Or in this case; not drink.
I agree with meesles sentiment.
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#4weird that she just flat breaks AA tradition 11 "we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.”
The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA.
Try it before you judge it.
AA finds u when u need it, not to be traded for a drunkalog to generate page views.
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#5This is a very beautiful story, but not very thought-provoking and it doesn't really offer anything new. (To me, at least)
The point is, how many of us techies suffer from similar problems? After all, many alcoholics started excessive drinking due to stress - and I'd say the startup world is filled with people under loads of stress.
80-hour weeks are going to take a cut of your soul and I wonder sometimes how many of us are trying to replace said cut with alcohol or other drugs.
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#6weird that she just flat breaks AA tradition 11 "we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.” The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA. Try it before you judge it. AA finds u when u need it, not to be traded for a drunkalog to generate page view…
> The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA.
> Try it before you judge it.
An organization that tries to inflate its own public success rate, and then asks people to keep an open mind towards it rather than dismiss it. Ok.
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#7weird that she just flat breaks AA tradition 11 "we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.” The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA. Try it before you judge it. AA finds u when u need it, not to be traded for a drunkalog to generate page view…
I have found that lots of aa members have a casual understanding of the traditions of aa. They attend meetings, and share about personal feelings but have little desire to learn and live by the traditions that were created out of hard lessons.
The particular tradition you refer to (appropriately) is about protecting AA from the ego's of its members and protecting members from arrogance which everyone know 'precedes a fall'.
Another misunderstanding of this tradition has to do with confusion with confidentiality. It was never intended for members to be secret from each other. This tradition is at the level of press, radio and films. Some people have tried to say that anonymity is at the level of members with each other, and that members should hide their full name from each other. In my opinion (which could be wrong) this is due to the influence of treatment centers in the 80's and 90's on the established program of AA.
Regardless, I find that careful anonymous sharing about the program of AA online is ok as long as you don't identify yourself as an AA member or use your full name and picture. Or if you do use your full name and picture, you shouldn't admit membership in AA.
I do not care to comment on my personal affiliation :)
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#8Note the total lack of self-blame, or taking responsibility for one's own problems. Even the title, "No One to Rescue Me from My Drinking", puts the blame on someone, anyone, else.
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#9i wonder if this was a man how the story would go.
much worse i'd imagine :/
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#10weird that she just flat breaks AA tradition 11 "we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.” The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA. Try it before you judge it. AA finds u when u need it, not to be traded for a drunkalog to generate page view…
Take your own inventory and let others take their own, dude.