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Am I making the choices I want to make, or is habit making my choices for me? —Al Anon Daily Reader “Courage to Change,” p. 209.
#al anon#aa#12 step#12 steps#12 step programs#recovery#cptsd recovery#choice#choices#adulting#creative journaling#meditation#self talk
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Charles W. Brice: Twerski
We staff therapists at Gateway rehab center gathered at one long table to have our lunch and commune. Deep into conversationsabout newborns on the way, houses for sale,the long commute from Pittsburgh, or eventhe political scene, no matter what we werediscussing, Abe Twerski, rabbi, psychiatrist,and our medical director, would sit down, yarmulke hair-pinned to his scalp, head and payot bobbing,…
#12 step programs#AA#Abe Twerski#addiction#Alcoholics Anonymous#Charles Brice#Gateway Rehabilitation#Hasidic#judaism#Old Testament#Rabbi#recovery#Twerski
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When someone has a substance use disorder, there is this harmful belief that 12 Step programs are the best and only treatment of choice. While some people find 12 Step programs helpful, others don’t, and rather than trying to find something that works well for them they are encouraged to try harder.
While some people with gender dysphoria may benefit from Gender Affirming Care and transition, others don’t. And there are other treatments available and pathways available. You can have gender dysphoria and you can find contentment without transitioning. People need more options than to just try harder at something that isn’t working for them.
#mental health care#substance use disorders#12 step programs#gender dysphoria#gender affirming care#challenging black and white thinking#gender exploration
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dead boy detectives fic progress report: 6k
#progress report#this is getting longer than i anticipated#it's just that sometimes you are stupid and bisexual and traumatized and it takes a 12 step program for you to realize you're in love#charles is dumb dead boy okay
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I love people talking about Laudna and Bells Hells like, "um they're just enabling the addict." Should they check her into rehab? Should they take some time off from trying to prevent the immediately incoming apocalypse to find her a good 12 step program?
#critical role#laudna#im joking#evidence of 12 step programs being effective treatment for drug addiction is dubious#but i love the audacity of the opinion that stories should be less complicated and interesting#also i know they already did take a break from apocalypse averting for group therapy#but im willing to bet nobody at the table wants to do that every time theres an incident
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Yoouuu bet babe! 🤣
#you can't win with someone that only has two brain cells#i don't know who needs to hear it#recovering asshole#is there a 12 step program for that?#SOMEONE would probably enroll me#ok multiple someones#whatever
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Rehab was pretty hit or miss - I met some great people, but the program was very 12 Steps oriented, and I'm more convinced than ever that the 12 Steps is a cult that leads its members to an early death. On the other hand, changing my medication totally killed my desire to drink as did the conviction that I do not want anything to do with the world of recovery
#for some people recovery is their whole life#everyone there had been to every single rehab in the area and even to that one multiple times#and they keep relapsing worse and worse every time and then the program blames and shames them and tells them they're just doing it wrong#and eventually they die. every day they'd tell us one or more former clients just died#groups were too often full of scientific misinformation and led by people who don't know what they're talking about#and I didn't realize this but the format of a 12 step meeting is you say a bunch of prayers someone shares their story there's comment time#and then more prayers#and while I enjoy hearing the stories it's like this could have been a reddit post#but I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time and I read a really good French book called The Elegance of the Hedgehog#I might try a Refuge Recovery meeting. that's a Buddhist program that I think is similar to Dharma Recovery#also I got re-addicted to cigarettes bc smoking is the primary social activity in any rehab. so now I have to quit again#also I think Jeff Bridges looks like Arthur Morgan
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Just thinking about House and better therapy and how a twelve step program would be actually probably good for him
Like, idk how much y’all know but 12-step programs were designed by a psychologist and an addict, together. There’s cognitive distortion work. There’s shadow work. Resentments and ego and self-destructive behavior deconstruction.
The program is literally designed for people with House’s attitude in s6 (IE, “I don’t think there’s really anything wrong with me but I don’t want to be miserable anymore”). Most addicts walk in thinking the folks there learned how to use successfully.
Plus, addicts learn how to NOT burn everything down just bc of setbacks; “live life on life’s terms.”
And there’s literally terminology for what House goes through, where he’s delighted that it’s working, until the first time it doesn’t and he crashes. “Pink cloud.”
House and 12-step y’all
#the only reason not to write this#is that 12-step programs#annoy me#house md#gregory house#greg house#hatecrimes md#hate crimes md
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either I am weirdly and severely lacking in the imagination department or everyone who makes/reblogs those "when every song is about the Fictional Character/OC" posts listens to way different music than I do. I mean, I think I'm pretty imaginative. but even I cannot imagine The Character to a song like *shuffles* Obscene as Cancer by Anaal Nathrakh
even if I weed out all the metal (I think it's reasonable to assume that yeah, most of the people on those posts aren't metalheads, or at least are more the Sleep Token kind of metalhead as opposed to the Cattle Decapitation kind) I'm left with a lot of songs that are either just About Something Very Specific And Therefore Not Widely Applicable (like modern politics or some specific relationship dynamic or a historical event or the plot of a concept album or well you get the picture) or have lyrics I just cannot make any sense of. although, I guess, if the lyrics don't make sense you have full rein to somehow make those lyrics into something about The Character. I guess that's where the imagination comes in, right
my point is any time I listen to my playlist I think about those posts because it takes me being like 15 tracks in before I get to a single song that I can do the "this is about The Character now" thing with and sometimes that annoys the fuck out of me because I want to play, too >:(
#my most character-applicable genre of music is motown/soul/r&b because there's a lot of love songs i can use for ships#(and sad songs for divorced ships lol)#but after that it's like... yes here's this dillinger escape plan song that sounds like pure gibberish to me (lyrically).#here's eddie vedder mumbling and/or screaming about his father issues again. (<3)#here's a 15-minute progressive metal epic in three parts that is about the 12-step AA program.#i mean yes i guess eddie vedder's father issues can be applicable. but you get my drift#singularity.txt
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As I come to feel at home with myself and my values, my likes and dislikes, my dreams and choices, I am increasingly able to risk other peoples's disapproval. —Al Anon Daily Reader "Courage to Change," p. 217.
#home#growth#self esteem#self acceptance#meditation#creative journaling#self love#at home#at home with the self#al anon#aa#12 steps#12 step programs
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Heidi Gerard: Addiction Recovery Is Hard. Funding It Shouldn't Be
I work with moms and kids on their recovery journey. Funding for centers like mine is woefully small compared to the need. Treating addiction is hard. But as someone who’s in recovery and now helps mothers on their own recovery journey, one thing is very simple: We need more investment in the solutions that work. Shutterstock Every person in recovery has their own story. My grandmother was an…
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#12 step programs#addiction#alcoholism#Health Care#Heidi Gerard#heroin#immigrant expereince#Juvenile rehabilitation#mothers and children#opioid epidemic#rehabilitation#social services
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I reformatted Co-Dependents Anonymous's Recovery Patterns pages
(I didn't like that one of them got chopped in half across pages)
#they're a lot messier but. at least they don't split a section across a page turn lmao#codependency#recovering codependent#codependents anonymous#coda#12 steps#twelve step program#bpd#bpd fp#cluster b#toxic relationship#toxic love#toxicity#obsession#recovery#recovery patterns#affirmations#codapunk#guiltyedits
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I mean it’s good advice, but not very realistic George!🤣
#star wars#george lucas#i love him#it’s like a drug#so addictive#it always has been for me#is there a 12 step program?#i’ll need a recovery group#it kinda grabs you by the booboo don’t it?
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fun fact 12 step programs were developed by two white christian men in 1930s america
#clenching my jAW#it's so hard bc it merits a much more nuanced discussion than tumblr writ large will ever go for#12 steps work for a lot of people!#but they also don't work for a lot of people!#they were developed through a very particular lens! and a lot of it is about breaking down one's own ego#guess who doesn't have the ego of white american men in the 1930s? hmm......#nvm the religious foundation.. you can tell me that 'god' can be anything all you want but it does not erase the moral bent of the program#and then every other variation of 12 steps just copy/pastes the same fucking structure#i think they're good in the sense that it can help you find community right#and i'm not going to devalue the importance of feeling like you're not alone#but that's about theeee only thing i got out of naranon#i thought adult children of might be different but no it feels exactly the same#and it's honestly extremely triggering to read 'you have a victim mindset' when i've spent over a year's work with my therapist to finally#acknowledge myself as a victim for the first time!#fuck offfffff. okay rant over.#driveby post#addiction
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hi, is there anything that you read on recovery that you'd recommend?
there's a book that's pretty specific that i'm not comfortable recommending publicly - i think it's probably very similar to most books about a specific addiction and the value of 12 step programs with recovery. but i found that to be more helpful with understanding the nature of addiction more than anything else.
in terms of things about recovery that were resonant with my experiences and have been helpful in kind of bridging the gap between what i learned in therapy and what i need to practice every day, i've found it really helpful to just listen and read things by people who are in recovery! two specific interviews that come to mind are this one ab-soul did with charlamagne tha god (which i found useful specifically in re: suicide attempts), and this one i just heard the other day on sway in the morning with sir.
i will say that i'm pretty magpie-ish with what i take from anything i read or hear about mental illness/recovery/etc, and there's useful stuff i've found all over the place, but i don't know how helpful any of it would have been without a foundation of like 9 months of intensive therapy almost a decade ago. i feel comfortable and see the value in adding things to those practices now, but i did need a very specific structure first to start out.
#asks#anon#suicide cw#specifically for the ab-soul interview which iirc gets pretty graphic altho i listened to it like a year ago#feel free to send me a message off anon if you think that specific book could be helpful but like i said probably any entry level book#is going to give you the same info in terms of like. the value of the 12 steps and the nature of addiction and recovery#and hopefully this was clear from my post but i'm not in a 12 step program - i just see valuable similarities to managing my depression
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