Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
AA does not work for the majority of people that try it. They don't like this fact to be known, but it's a failure for most.

AA is cult-like. You're supposed to go for the rest of your life. That never sounded like a good idea to me.

There are alternative programs and organizations that allow people to get themselves off alcohol and/or bad drugs by using self-reliance, without the "higher power" belief system and other baggage associated with 12 step programs. I don't have a substance-abuse problem, but if I did I could not agree with most of AA's twelve steps, so it wouldn't work for me.

These are the original Twelve Steps as defined by Alcoholics Anonymous:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol/drugsā??that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

97% of people who just go to treatment alone fail.....A.A works if YOU work it. 1 my life was unmanageble, 2 I beilive that a group of induviduals...my higher power can help me.3 i gladly turned over my addiction, because i could not control it on my own.4 everyone should do this reguardless of addiction.5 are catholics all bad too? haha it feels good to tell on yourself.6&7 wouldn't we all like to be better people? 8 i cant wait to start this...sounds a bit like pay it forward 9 again sounds uplifting if done right,,,i would never tell someone how i wronged them if it would only make me feel better.10 keep your ass in check.11meditation...church.....whatever just stay spiritual.12 help people...be a giver not a taker.

you wont or cannot do most of these things...I AM SORRY