This ever happened to you?

Recovery
#1

Hi friends. Just want to share a story and see if anyone has had a similar situation happen to them.

So have you ever been in recovery and go to a AA meeting only to get so depressed by it and leave and relapse with a drink? I have... twice. I'm grateful it's working for so many others, but just didn't feel right with me. Thanks for reading guys and keep up the good work!

"We fall down, but we get up."
Grateful to this app, for for some it's their first step and their greatest step. Peace and blessings.:relieved:

I will be one month sober on June 19th.

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#4

I can’t say it’s happened to me as I cut liquor cold turkey but I do understand the feeling of attending support-based workshops and leave feeling worse than before. Recovery isn’t linear so I hope you’re giving yourself grace. Congrats in advance on your upcoming milestone!

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#5

Thank you very much!:slightly_smiling_face:

#6

I used to arrive to meetings LATE and would shutdown so I would stay in my car instead. Fighting the urge to go buy a drink instead. My sponsor told me, “go in even if you are late, you are depriving yourself from something good you might hear, and you’re depriving others from your share” didn’t really make sense at the time. I’ve been to meetings where I get NOTHING. But I know now. If I hear no solution, if I hear all negatives, I am to be the one to talk about the solution.

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#7

Have never actually been to a meeting but I can see how that could happen.

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#8

For 20 years, I left every meeting I went to feeling like drinking. I finally found an AA meeting that doesn't make me feel like that, but it's not my primary source of support. I went to a local recovery program, and now participate in their weekly recovery group, and that has been the most helpful for me.

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#9

Yeah the rooms can wear me down sometimes. I try to lighten the mood by sharing positive experiences of being sober. The meetings can turn in to a pity party very fast

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#12

It sounds like people aren’t sharing experience strength and hope, they’re only sharing war stories and how bad things got, maybe how they are still struggling. The meetings I go to most people who share are sharing what AA has done for them, how happy their lives have become, and how they got there by using a sponsor to guide them through the steps and get connected to their higher powers. The area I live in is a pocket of enthusiasm for recovery, people actually pass on hope to the next person who is still struggling, giving that person hope that they too can recovery and have a life beyond their wildest dreams. I’ll be a year sober in 11 more days and it’s all thanks to how great AA is in my area and how it made me want to work the steps when I knew I needed to. More importantly I make sure I talk to people before and after the meetings. The meetings are great and all but the real point of going to a meeting is to get connected with people who are doing well in recovery.

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#13

Take from meetings what you need and leave the rest behind.

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