tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530451786669304321.post7666829157200131036..comments2023-09-22T08:12:25.535-04:00Comments on THE PRIVILEGED ADDICT : Depression, Real But ImpermanentCharliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04183269305957041463noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530451786669304321.post-90244858570355410622017-04-03T07:58:13.503-04:002017-04-03T07:58:13.503-04:00Charlie, I also found that my 40 yrs long intracta...Charlie, I also found that my 40 yrs long intractable depression lifted along with the obsession to use and a devastating cognitive deterioration was repaired after I took the first nine steps in one day and by that day's evening and ever since now diligently and devotedly do my daily 10-11-12. SOB, Everything is Real now. Awesome. <br /><br />I have no idea whether it only applies to AA's, or depression is generally speaking a spiritual malady and thus is treatable by the 12Steps. God is almighty, after all, why not. I see in the rooms people with severe depression and anxiety still going on, although their obsession to drink is gone, they are re-socialized and they are in that sense recovered AA's. I don't know why they still have it and I don't. But then Bill W. smoked all his life and also suffered from bouts of depression post-conversion. In my case a l l addictions were swept away, wholesale, along with GAD and intractable depression. I wasn't asking God for anything, well, I did ask God to accept me and be my director, that's all, and I certainly didn't have any expectations, except one. I wanted to experience love before I die, at least once. They disappeared by themselves, pufffff...<br /><br />Thank you for you blog and your books, Charlie. I ordered them yesterday, can't wait for them to arrive. Maybe one day you would write a book specifically on sponsorship, to share your "experience, strength and hope" with that part of our step 12. I found that the statistics on ASPD in general population and in addicts, in alcoholics specifically are about 1-5%, 15-20% and 10-15%. The rest of us are capable of genuine honesty even before the Divine Intervention and our recovery rates can and ought to be just that: 80-90%, as Cleveland group once had them, 'back when'people were actually sticking to the recipe as written. <br /><br />I found your blog yesterday by googling "AA and moral psychology" and felt happy to find a sister-soul who experiences and says all the right things that mine wants to hear. I'd been a wretched mess, an alcoholic mouse, petrified, unable to comprehend the world of people, hiding in the hole for 45 years and now I am so different, social, open and beaming, because I am not alone in a very real sense. It's us now, me and God, you and me and our fellow AA's. Dear God, we are so lucky we have each other! <br /><br />Mila V.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530451786669304321.post-66610426915154066972013-09-23T22:32:21.806-04:002013-09-23T22:32:21.806-04:00So true... us, God & action.
;)So true... us, God & action. <br />;)Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04183269305957041463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2530451786669304321.post-88390561565665556712013-09-23T18:10:04.146-04:002013-09-23T18:10:04.146-04:00I started reading your site and have not stopped, ...I started reading your site and have not stopped, taking the power back and not looking at the world/medication/doctors everybody else to solve things. Its simple, its just "I" and with God its so possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com