I WAS WAITING FOR THIS PICTURE AND IT WAS BETTER THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED!!!

I am going to miss you Mr. President. You did good. Thank you. Now I am crying.

Pretty much everyone knows at this point, or should know, that you shouldn’t put baby powder on babies anymore. It’s definitely a health risk for babies, not just for their baby business, but for their lungs.

Autism Speaks is the worst. Their official position may be “we don’t know if vaccines cause autism” (which of course is bullshit) but they routinely host presenters who do at their conferences.

I read an AskReddit thread last month asking autistic individuals what they wished people knew about their lives. One of the highest-rated comments was from an autistic person saying that Autism Speaks was a “horrible” organization, and a lot of people on the Spectrum chimed in saying similar things, that the…

And there you have to drag Trump into it.

You know I have this weird theory that AA just doesn’t work for some people and that’s ok. I started drinking a lot for a period of time because of something traumatic that happened that I can’t go into detail about but basically destroyed my ability to trust other people for a time. Naturally, AA meetings were…

I mean, it differs from place to place. My sponsor’s best friend sponsors men and women and has both a male and female sponsor. I know a few other people who do the same. Some places are more lax about some of the rules. It’s supposed to be about motives in the end. As for pot, I mean, I think the main idea of AA’s…

Have you tried women-only meetings?

I’m always astounded that addiction management in this country focuses so entirely on AA. If it works for you, super! But, it doesn’t work for most people. Meanwhile, Naltrexone has been around for years, is significantly more effective than AA, and almost NO ONE prescribes it in the US. It’s actually insane to me.

I haven’t been able to articulate why I dislike her so much, but you just showed me. She can’t even be bothered to pretend she gives a shit. She’s left a trail of emotional wreckage in her wake for her entire adult life and she has yet to show even a shred of remorse. I’m trying to recall if she’s ever said “I’m…

What is a mild annoyance to you is a matter of life and death to an addict. It’s not always the alcohol itself (which depending on how long you cook it, doesn’t completely cook out) but the smell and the taste could be triggering. Even the thought that you are ingesting alcohol could trigger the obsessive thoughts. Or…

To all the people complaining about the courts sending people to AA: The court-ordered DUI program I was sentenced to required 52 “self-help” meetings. AA was listed as an example of one of the types of meetings you could go to, but was not the sole method of meeting the court’s orders. This was also in California.

Yep, pretty sure smoking pot does qualify as a slip.

Seconding a few others who have mentioned it: have you checked out SMART? It’s not a 12-step, doesn’t have anything to do with a higher power, and is rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy/modification.

True, it has some serious problems. For those for whom it does work, great, but it can be pretty harmful to those for whom it doesn’t (because the model is very blaming and shaming), and it has nothing remotely approaching the success rate claimed.

have you checked out SMART recovery or RBT therapy?

something i hate about AA is how polarizing it is. next week i’ll have two years sober thanks to AA and i see it on both sides. people being adamant it’s the only solution and people (already in the comments) declaring it is garbage because it didnt work for them.

I don't know who this woman is (no TV). But I know of the AA's relinquishment to a "Higher Power." AA does not comprehend women or the fact that we have "higher powers" controlling us all of our lives and this really great "higher Power" is just another distributor of shame. I'm trying to stay 'on the wagon' too, but…

Meh, not that weird. They sound similar to non-German/Dutch speakers, but very different to us.