Hallelujah this is some truth right here. This should be the response to everyone who pops up in the comment sections to preach against AA. It’s free, (unlike rehab), accessible, and there are folks there whose life used to look like how yours looks now, or conversely, their lives look like what you want your life to…

wow twins. i was in rehab 3 weeks before my 26th and hit 2 years a month ago :)

Well christ on a cracker, isn’t this fortuitous?! I’m about to go off to my first AA meeting in over 25 years. It was NA for me back then, because I didn’t “like”alcohol until my 30s! Now I’m all grown up, having shed the really fucked up drugs, and taken on the glory of booze. I’ve been unemployed for a long time,…

AA doesn’t keep someone sober, it offers support for someone that wants to be sober. The only person or thing that can keep someone sober is themselves.

Nothing “works” to keep someone sober. You work to be sober. There are tools that help. You know what doesn’t “work”? Not trying.

I needed this article so much right now, thank you so much for putting this viewpoint out there. I have been struggling the last few months with finally cutting alcohol and the demons that follow it down to a minimum in my life. I have absolutely no one to talk to about this so sorry I’m about to spill my guts. I had…

Brazilian here. Although the article is factually correct, I think it would be useful to expand the information a bit, in order to get more context. Since I already sort of did that with my comment in the article about the Italian woman burnt alive by an ex-boyfriend, here it goes:

At the risk of sounding stupid - I don’t understand what you’re saying

I can relate to this. I grew up with a single mother & 3 sisters, my father was an asshole before he left. My mom absolutely tried her best but honestly she didn’t know how to talk to me, mostly just told me I’m the man of the house & deal with it however I could. I grew up never telling anyone when I was sad, afraid…

Did we date? lol

DUDE i know this feeling well. and somehow i see it happening and perversely that makes me want to make it happen MORE. “I KNEW YOU DIDN’T LOVE ME REALLY!!”

With the requisite disclaimer that I am a crazy dog person, I think a charity to help injured working animals is fabulous.

“Who are you talking to?” and older woman’s voice shouted worriedly from the background.

yes to all

No.

No. Absolutely no shit. Ever again.

As someone who had raging resting angry face as a child, I feel ya, Caroline. I feel ya so hard. You are adorable and dignified and one day you’ll use that glare to instantly wither asshole high school classmates, gross men in bars and anyone else who gets in your way.

In 2013 I had a mastectomy on my left side with immediate reconstruction so that when I woke up I had two breasts. I was so glad I did it as I felt that for me it was less traumatizing for me that way. My reconstructed breast had no nipple though, just a flap made from skin from my belly. It took me a long time before…

I was diagnosed at 29 with a tumor large enough that mastectomy was the only option. It’s important for people to know that the razzle-dazzle surgical reconstructions that sometimes are out there in the media (a la Angelina) are most often for people who didn’t have cancer at all (preventative) or didn’t have the full…