What Is a Good NONRELIGIOUS Alcoholic Support Group?
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I can’t submit to a “higher power”
and I will piss on anyone’s 12 steps
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Answer by DrZoo
AA?
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*Some* of the AA groups let members think of the “higher power” as anything they want.
Personally, I’d have trouble with that unless it were done by simply saying that human beings have powerful limitations that are really-really hard to overcome once anyone gets into a particular situation, and that one needs only to “surrender” to the idea that it’s often impossible to just “will-power” one’s way out of a bad habit *without* changing some things including stucture around one, and brutal honesty *with oneself* (which is where it’s important).
Then it would be a matter of what kinds of things one would have to change/put in place and how much one could get behind those particular things with their values/etc and be really smart about it –but all that’s just basic psychology.
Anyway, there are some non-12-step, non-religious support groups for alcoholics though not nearly as easy to find as AA. Some of them have stuff online though and help numbers that can probably give you all kinds of info and resources. Hold on and I’ll go find where I’ve gathered that info before. . . okay, there’re called “Rational Recovery”:
https://rational.org/index.php?id=1
and “Smart Recovery”:
http://www.smartrecovery.org/resources/faq.htm
You could also just try some kind of group or individual counseling/therapy or perhaps even Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)** , or see what your state might offer.
** CBT is very goal-oriented and deals with “habits” and “thinking”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
Good luck!