#12 step programs

[unofficialchronicle]

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.

[loudlylovingreview]

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,…

[healingdemeter]

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.

[shanastoryteller]

dead boy detectives fic progress report: 6k

[onethousand825days]

[washed-up-wurmcoil]

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?

[malbecmusings]

Yoouuu bet babe! 🤣

[necromancy-savant]

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

[oddlittlestories]

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

[echthr0s]

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 >:(

[guiltyidealist]

I reformatted Co-Dependents Anonymous's Recovery Patterns pages

(I didn't like that one of them got chopped in half across pages)

[unofficialchronicle]

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.

[loudlylovingreview]

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…

[reyturnofbensolo]

I mean it’s good advice, but not very realistic George!🤣

[hungerpunch]

fun fact 12 step programs were developed by two white christian men in 1930s america

[leguin]

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.