What Do You Think About AA?
Question by Sam Rutledge: What do you think about AA?
I’m only 19. But I drink every night just about, and when I drink I do it just to get as drunk as I can befor I pass out. I quit doing coke about two years ago, but I can’t stop drinking. Sometimes I will even mix in a few pills when I drink. I’m trying to streighten out my life, but I’m slipping back into my past. Hanging out with old friends, The same old hang out places. I keep telling myself that I can controll it but now I’m not so sure. I’m afraid of going back to the heavy drugs. I don’t want to go to rehab because I don’t think it would work, I drink because I fell alone. I know it’s a cleche but that’s how I feel. My relationships have been bad, I don’t relate to my family, and my friends who don’t drink or do drugs just yell at me all the time. I dint know I guess I’m just looking for the answers to life and I’m failing at it at the same time.
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Answer by bigdaddy
You definitely need to get into some type of rehab. Try AA and NA. They can be extremely helpful. At the minimum you can connect with people who have the same problems as you and you can discuss ways to stay clean and sober. If this doesnt work a rehab facility would be in order. You need to correct this problem before it leads to much more serious problems.
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AA is free, so it could possibly help you.
Can you see a counselor/therapist? Do you have insurance? You sound depressed and need to talk to someone to help you sort through this.
Admitting you can’t control this problem is the first step.
Good luck.
No one can help you unless and until you make up your own mind to get help yourself. Talking about and planning it just don’t get the job done. You need to go to AA every single night for at least a year or more until you feel you have regained control of your life. Obviously the first thing you need to do is get rid of all your “friends” who are not your friends at all, they will only drag you down. You have two options; one, get help and live or keep going the way you are and die soon. That’s it. Make up your mind which you want and go for it.