Question by steel9maiden: What exactly is a therapeutic community?
Could you go into some detail please; the stuff that I found on Google gave one-sentence answers and were not very enlightening.

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Answer by soyabeanlover
support group ? ? Not sure myself :p

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Question by Tom: I have a love/hate relationship with alcoholics anonymous. Anyone else feel this way?
I like the fact that its a place where I can meet others that understand and support, but that’s about it. As far as almost everything within the big book and most of the steps, i think their bunk and cult-like. Does anyone else feel this way?

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Answer by raysny
Sure do, except for the love part.

I bounced in and out of the rooms for years, never able to stop drinking for more than a few months at a time. I had to turn my back on AA and take responsibility for my alcoholism and my recovery. I had to unlearn the powerless nonsense, forget that I’m supposed to have a lifelong disease that I can never recover from.

I never received any support from members because I’m an atheist. They loudly predicted that I would die drunk in a gutter for refusing to find their God. Don’t believe their claims that your “Higher Power” can be anything you want, by their definition, their Higher Power is a pretty specific god, and one that is not entirely compatible with the Christian God or the God of any mainstream religion that I’m aware of.

I felt that if I could get help for the depression that fueled my drinking, I’d be able to stay stopped, but for years I couldn’t find anyone who would help unless I had a chunk of sober time through AA. So I’d try, I’d go to AA, get treated like dirt while my clinical depression merged with the chemical depression of early sobriety and I’d be suicidal.

Next month will be 11 years sober for me. I co-own the Yahoo group “without_aa”:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/without_aa/
which is about deprogramming from AA, alternatives, and the general weirdness of the rooms.

AA does NOT improve on the rate of natural remission, people quitting on their own. The vast majority of people quit without ANY type of treatment.

The NIAAA’s 2001–2002 National Epidemiolo­gic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions interviewe­d over 43,000 people. Using the criteria for alcohol dependence found in the DSM-IV, they found:
“About 75 percent of persons who recover from alcohol dependence do so without seeking any kind of help, including specialty alcohol (rehab) programs and AA. Only 13 percent of people with alcohol dependence ever receive specialty alcohol treatment.­”
http://www.spectrum.niaaa.nih.gov/features/alcoholism.aspx

Anyone having doubts about AA should do some poking around at this site:
The Orange Papers
http://www.orange-papers.org/

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Question by Victoria: Question about self harm recovery?
I’ve been a self harmer for 2 and a half years. I don’t plan to stop anytime soon but if I do, I have a few questions about it. –

If I got the urge to cut while trying to stop, what could I do?

I heard it was impossible to completely stop cutting.. Is that true?

Is it really hard to go through with the “recovery” like everyone says it is?

That’s only a few of all the questions I have but if I get some good answers, I might consider stopping. It’s ruining my life honestly. If it matters, I’m 14.

Sorry if this isn’t in the proper category!

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Answer by Madison
Hi,

I have self harmed for three and a half years and have recently stopped for a year and a half and I am free of urges now.

1.) It honestly depends on what kind of person you are. I talk on the phone to someone supportive. Some other ideas are drawing, writing, going running (a good kind of pain)…

2.) No that’s not true I haven’t for over a year and a half and I know people who have for longer.

3.) No you just need the right support system for me it was therapy and supportive people to talk to. (I don’t talk about the urge to cut just the problem I’m having and they work through it with me.)

I hope you stop cutting, good luck!

~Madison~

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Question by amcad: For anyone who’s been in a self-help/support group, what were the pros/benefits of the group?

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Answer by crash
Well as the name implies you will get support. You will make friends with people that are dealing with similar issue’s. You will get feed back on possible solutions that are easier to accept from someone who has been there vs. having no real hands on knowledge except out of a text book.

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