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Before you critique it, I suggest you do a wee bit more research than attend a couple meetings. If you had read any actual original AA literature you would have found, in the forward to the first edition of the "Big Book" that it says, "We are more 100 men and women who have RECOVERED from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body". The word recovered is used multiple times in the Big Book. Yes, you can go into far too many meetings today as hear what you heard. You'll be forever sick, always in some phase of recovery, just one drink away from disaster. That jargon is what has leaked out of treatment centers over the decades. It's not traditional AA belief. Yes, meetings are not perfect nor are they for everyone. It also states in our original literature that "we have no corner on this market and wish the best for those that have found another way". If AA has made any mistake over the years, I would say the biggest one is trying to be all things to all people. We're not that. I have 39 years of continuous sobriety and have been active in AA, sometimes more, some less, for that entire period. Why do I still go? Because somebody must be there to tell the newcomer that they can indeed recover from this, never drink again, and live a happy and productive life. It was given freely to me, and it is an obligation that I do the same. We're not perfect, never claimed to be, have plenty of bullshit in our game. In essence we are a reflection of our screwed-up society, but for some people it works. The statistics of recovery are horrible. That only demonstrates just how insidious this affliction is once it gets it's hooks into you. You found another way. Good for you. You can share that other way without bad mouthing what you clearly don't fully understand. I suggest you try that approach, and you may be able to help many people.
Oh please. I went to a couple of different places and both got into a heated argument about cure vs continued recovery. My brother was also in AA for a few years before he left it as well as other family members who all said the same thing. I've talked to many AA members from different places all over the country--same dialogue. I was in the open meetings for family members-- same dialogue. What you're saying may be an exception but it isn't the rule with AA. Look at some of the other comments from people who left it. Same story.
I think the point of this video is supposed to enlighten the power of the self without the assistance of a program. I've been to AA and what I've observed is they are creating a new addictive relationship with their program. So you don't drink because you are now addicted to the groups and the program. It's a strange mental conditioning/brainwashing that happens
That is exactly right. Look at their comments--"it helps millions of people" when in actuality it fails most. "It's done wonders for me" as they sit in the rooms, afraid to leave ten years sober. There will be no more videos on this channel--as the vids that got the attention were anti AA which is the channel that will launch in a little over a year, which I'm making videos for now. Stay tuned for THE ANTI AA CHANNEL.
All of these AA "debunking" videos either come across as smart assy guys such as yourself shitting on something to that genuinely helps people, or like when someone can't be happy for someone getting well.
Nope, I'm the guy who is over 16 years sober without AA. AA fails most--period. No matter how many times the proponents keep saying how they help people that is the data outside of one very biased study from Stanford. You fail the huge majority and the ones who don't are afraid to leave the rooms after years begin sober--which is ridiculous. You have physically unhealthy lifestyles with your smoking, caffeine and sugar intake (which actually induces cravings) and you live in the past in your circles every night rehashing your days with John Barleycorn which is also not mentally healthy. I have very few cravings that last maybe a minute and are infrequent. I rarely think about alcohol. The only time I'll be thinking about alcoholism is my new coming channel which I hope to pull as many people out of the failed toxicity that AA promotes as I can. You're a failed program that should have modified its methods once people realized Bill and Bob's methods were failing the majority. You reinvent your life by a physical fitness program, clean diet and meditative program. Then you advance every aspect of your life. And you leave the past behind.
@@charleshurstreinvention3959 Wow.....fantastic...you seem so knowledgeable and have so much life experience and such wisdom....Your judgements are perfection and absolutely no projection going on with you. How do you manage to remain so impartial, objective, compassionate, non-judgemental and so measured? Wish I was a perfect human being like you and knew it all. You make such precise, accurate, intelligent judgements. Wow...no 'contempt prior to investigation' with you or humility for critical thinking you just know all the answers. You know it all without any professional research or understanding..........fantastic, what a gift. I am sure the whole world is going to be cured by your approach. You are the one who is right and anyone who disagrees with you must be wrong and you obviously have no ego!!! Carl Jung the eminent psychotherapist and a contributer to the formation of AA obviously didn't know as much as you. 😊 Finally congratulations you mention "Physically unhealthy lifestyles"......brilliant discovery...no one has ever thought of that one!!!
have you considered that AA also hurts and alienates some addicts? that AA and NA have both been barriers to recovery for some? if it works for you that’s fine but the rest of us have every right to speak about where the program fails us. and it’s perfectly fair to critique a program that was written by christians in the 1930s. our understanding of psychology and addiction a hundred years ago was garbage, of course we should hold century old treatments up to scrutiny.
My wife is 40 years sobor with aa, i tell her aa might have been there, but she did it, not god or twelve steps but her own inner strength. What aa does do is let you know you are not alone. But it is a bit cultish.
I think it depends on whether your truly at rock bottom. For some people they have nothing else. No friends or family left to support their healing journey.,For them AA takes on that roll. GRATZ to you for being able to go cold turkey, the success rate of that is lower then having AA help.
Then you make something else. Physical fitness, meditative program, career advancement and enhance every aspect of your life. Not sitting smoking in the rooms rehashing your past for 20-30 years in a program that fails most
I used to be addicted to AA, it was what I slept, ate and lived. It did help in its own way. It’s just full of shitty people mostly who are really out for themselves. If you truly connect and build a king lasting friendship with ONE person for life, that’s a win. It doesn’t mean you have to keep subjecting yourself to the BS AA promotes and is full of. Way too many crappy ppl for me. Get sober on your own is my advice. Stay away from drama.
To be honest, AA stands for Assholes Aninymous wrapped with cute quotes and big egos. Being sober IS rad, no doubt! Learning about yourself and making amends IS sweet! Just avoid the meetings and people who suck! AA is truly full of them. Sad, really.
I recall reading that AA works for about 5% of the people who attend (based on what studies, I don't know) - these 5% are those who really need someone or something external to help them direct their lives. For most other people, it's inherently disempowering and the overt religiosity of it can be very off-putting.
I always say this--what would be better for long and permanent cure. One who is on a physical fitness program, clean diet, no smoking and meditative program---while progressing their career and all planes of self? That's what I did at now over 16 years sober. OR--the AA method. Rehashing the past every meeting of an alcoholic. Smoking. Not exercising. Ten years sober and still feel you have to be in the rooms but yet tell me how you are living your best life? This channel will be done soon---in terms of new videos. Because the niche was oversaturated. My other channel is doing well. But guess what videos did well in this failed channel---the Anti AA ones. I've got twelve videos, blogs and podcasts ready. When I have a year's worth in advance I will be launching The Anti AA Channel. Look for it in about a year or so from now. Cheers, Charles
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If you were able to just stop drinking, you were never a chronic alcoholic. The reason people don't recover in AA is because they don't actually do the 12 steps, they just go to meetings and wonder why it doesn't work. Get a life....
@@ts109 you're ignorant... it's not a crutch, nor is it a cure; it's a set of instructions that, if followed, will enable people to connect to a Higher Power in order to obtain the power to overcome alcoholism. Lack of power is our dilemma. It's yours too, but like I said, you're ignorant.
I'm almost 17 years sober and rarely have cravings nor think about alcohol. And I'm not spending my offtime rehashing my story in the rooms most nights---that's my point. Physical fitness, emotional meditation and progression in Self of all planes will do far better than the miserable failure rate in AA. I hope you catch my specific oncoming channel that will launch in a year on the why and how--cheers Charles
@@charleshurstreinvention3959 we will keep one for Ya though, you might need it some day. Time ain’t nothing. A day at a time if not, an hour or a minute. Folks AA just might work for you. Never post in finalities. Life might creep up on you.
I'm leading a meeting tomorrow so of course i have to talk myself out of what i been doing on and off for 44 years. Like Amway in my twenties I read Amway the cult of free enterprise and my upline went ballistic lol.
I suppose you still have soap stockpiled in your garage. 😉 (Before I got sober, I worked at the airport in Grand Rapids, and drove right past Amway everyday. Ada, Michigan)
44 years and you are going to meetings still--that is my point. 2 points actually---outside of the outlier study from Standford the consensus is your program fails most. @2nd point---the minority who succeed are trapped forever in the rooms which is ridiculous. That's what AA needs to think about
@@charleshurstreinvention3959 2 points that YOU need to think about. First, the "program" is NOT the issue. Most people fail because they aren't willing to hear the truth about themselves. WE are ALL flawed human beings. If I'm not interested in finding out what my flaws are, how can I take action to mitigate or correct them? I can't possibly get to the place I want to be, if I don't know where I am. After that, recovery is all about living to good purpose. Resolving family, health, employment/income, and legal issues, and being useful, trustworthy, compassionate, and responsible members of our communities. Second, NOBODY is "trapped forever" in the rooms. We have complete freedom to come and go as we please. But...maybe it's just possible that our lives have gotten so good, and with the true friendships we've established, that going to meetings is something we enjoy. As soon as I think I know everything about my emotional maturity, I render myself "NOT TEACHABLE". We don't believe in "smash and grab" sobriety, where we want the maximum benefit, for the least amount of effort.
@@charleshurstreinvention3959 By your own admission, you have next to nothing in the way of ACTUAL experience with AA. Yet here you are, suggesting that you know what "AA needs to think about". You are the kid who just rode the dime Pony in front of the grocery store, and thinks he's Wyatt Earp! 😂
@@charleshurstreinvention3959 Continuing to attend meetings is no different than a grandfather/grandmother passing down a skill, knowledge, experience, wisdom, and expertise about a hobby, job, some difficulty in life, etc, etc. It benefits everyone, but we don't expect you to understand, because you have no ACTUAL experience with AA. Sorry Charlie!
It's unfortunate the man went to two meetings. Did you give the steps a shot? Did you work on the ego that Carl Jung, the world renowned psychologist has written so extensively about? This has gotta be the most egocentric, Holier Than Thou video I have seen besides the recent presidential debate. I have gotten my life back. Traveled the world. Gotten married. Bought a house. Feel inner peace regularly. Have a group of friends I never believed imaginable. I wish you continuous sobriety and hope you one day, find inner peace, my friend.
Why would I give a shot to a program that fails most? And they do. 16 years sober and completely at peace. I hope to give that to people trapped in the rooms for life.
Have you seen the state of our addiction/homeless crisis? I'll stick with the path that works for me. I don't have a problem with different avenues that people get sober and better their lives. When you take to the internet to trash a path that has saved millions, it is the epitome of arrogance and ignorance.
"A very failed program". Right, because being focused on the absolute freedom to "live to good purpose", is a terrible thing. The horror of it all! The presenter of this doesn't know how much he doesn't know.
@@charleshurstreinvention3959 Fact is, the majority can't or won't put forth a fraction of the effort to get sober, compared to the monumental effort they put into drinking--that's it.
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Whatever works for you. Don't rip on anyone's journey. I'm an Iraq war vet, '04 and '06 and now work as a Paramedic. I drink a few night a week alone and cry myself to sleep. I get up go to work. I've not missed a day in 6 years. Don't preach or shit on someone elses journey.
There are a few comments below that point out that you have no licence to critique AA because you only went to two meetings. Half of that statement is true. You did only go to two meetings. And in fairness, your points might have had more weight if you had gone to 1000 meetings like I have. AA will say something like : TRY OTHER MEETINGS THEN, YOU'LL FIND MEETINGS THAT BETTER SUIT YOU. GO TO MORE MEETINGS. That's if they are kind and tactful. You are just as likely to get a hostile insulting response like : YOU WERE NEVER A REAL ALCOHOLIC LIKE US. YOU ARE CONSTITUTIONALLY INCAPABLE OF BEING HONEST WITH YOURSELF. GO OUT AND EXPERIMENT SOME MORE AND COME BACK WHEN YOU ARE READY (really desperate and malleable). After 1000 meetings, burying many friends in the program that went out in one spectacular binge, seeing the revolving door in AA (most come in and out for years or just disappear), I have to say that all your critiques of AA are bang on. This is how AA works for some people. Most of us will be motivated to change our behaviour in one of two ways. We change because we want to avoid something bad in the future. This motivation is fueled by fear, a negative outlook . Or we change because we are drawn to something good in the future. This motivation is fueled by an optimistic, positive outlook. Those that are motivated by the former will agree with comments like : YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THE GARBAGE TRUCK ALL THE WAY TO THE DUMP. Those that live by the latter will not be motivated by the negativity in AA. You are a hopeless alcoholic, doomed to recovering for life, you need ego deflation, reliance on God and the group to stay sober. Thinking for your self is discouraged, don't question AA wisdom, it works if you work it. The answer is mother time. Stay off it for 3 hours, then 3 days, then 3 weeks, then 3 months....The cravings get less and less important as time passes. One day you reach a point where you can't remember when you last had a thought of a drink. It's that simple. Of course you will decide to do different things as time goes by. Avoid or discard certain friends, certain parties, all-inclusive vacations for a while, look into supplements for bio-repair. Start building up your health, exercise, diet, avoid sugar, let the little things go.....
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My wife and I never went to AA either. Sitting in a room with other people, acknowledging that we're hopeless and can't get sober without a higher power, talking about something we can never have again, experiencing shame for actions we did on a highly addictive drug. WE got sober ourselves. It wasn't a higher power, it was US. We're 1 year 9 months sober today.
Hey congratulations. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Look for The Anti AA Channel coming out in a year and a half. Showing people a better way to regain your life---charles
100's of 1000's of people world wide have 1000's of years of sobriety as a result of AA. That is a fact. So Charlie saying it doesn't work is only an opionion and not a fact. You are a dangrous man spreading ill informed view that may stop people teying a proven method of recovery. Charlie why not focus on telling people what has worked for you rather than slated something yoi are ill equiped to talk about. By slating Aa which is peoven to work for some you may put off someone from going who it was the ideal mode of recovery for. As I stated mot omly are tou dangerous but your views could actually be killing people. Please consider this.
First, outside of a biased study from Stanford, all other studies not only say AA fails most but hugely so. Second, it traps the minority who stay sober in the rooms with unhealthy lifestyle. Period. If you think hanging out in the rooms 5-6 nights a week ten years sober is healthy you are high on a different psyche drug--AA cult mantras. It's going to get more dangerous Steven---this channel will end in a month. But my next one will focus only on AA and I hope to pull as many of your people out as I can so they can have a holistic recovery and regain their person. Cheers, Charles----16 years sober.
@@charleshurstreinvention3959 This is the guy, who by his own admission, has next to ZERO ACTUAL EXPERIENCE with AA, but thinks he knows. Like a toddler who has ridden the dime Pony in front of the grocery store, and thinks he's Wyatt Earp! 🐴
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AA needs constructive criticism and needs to make many changes to best help folks struggling with alcohol dependence. However, this snarky, blanket condemnation is not an insightful analysis of what is wrong and what is right with 12 Step groups.
No organization is perfect, including Alcoholics Anonymous. The "changes", however must come from the individual. Allow me to translate...If a person cannot, or will not move their feet differently, all of the help in the world will NOT save them from a fatal condition. The truth is, true sobriety is about being ok in the midst of chaos, or at 3:18am, when you're all alone and it's pin drop quiet. All the best to you John.
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They create a self fulfilling Prophecy that hurts. Kills... Same story. Got well with Ted Talk. Everything you think about addiction is wrong. Meditation works. Good non crist. Therapy.
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The cult members always attack when you offer people another way to stop drinking. Idk why it infuriates them so much that people actually can solve their issue through another way
The "cult members" don't give a damn if someone stands on their head for an hour, and believes in the Tooth Fairy, if it keeps them sober. We have better things to do than criticize another avenue to recovery, because we understand the fatal nature of alcoholism. In the interest of helping people recover, please enlighten me about "another way" so I can stop going to those damn meetings!
I’ll say it all to save you guys some time. “You’re just a dry drunk, not recovered.” “You’re so close to drinking, you just don’t know it.” “The program didn’t fail you, you failed the program.” “You’re not a real alcoholic.” “See ya when you’re ready to really recover.” There…I said all the criticism.
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