#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.

[churchofsatannews]

Satansplain #087 - "Mr. Satan", 12-step programs, Church of Satan in the media & Google

A man was arrested for publicly threatening an assassination, and apparently the only connection with Satanism is his online name. But that probably won’t stop people from asking us about it, so Bill offers his thoughts on the story. Also, answering listener questions on Church of Satan media appearances, Google searches on Satanism, and a Satanic look at 12-step programs.

[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,…

[gofrenchie]

having a coworker in recovery when you're in early sobriety is so beautiful and i really hope we get to see that kind of team-up between langdon and mckay in season 2. so much potential for some really great moments between two characters that didn't interact much in season 1.

[astarioffsimpmain]

I love Gale Dekarios. He's perfect. They put crack into pixels and called it a man. What have you done to me, Larian? I'm an addict now.

Look at this shit. How am I just expected to live my life after this?

[inkyami]

A peculiar case of “is it bad enough?”

My therapist canceled all my appointments for therapy in the clinic and gave me a referral to be hospitalized . Saying that any therapy is useless for me atm and my condition is too unstable.

My psychiatrist agreed that I could benefit from hospitalization but it’s better to just power through as it is manageable now.

Out of “it’s too bad and you need to be monitored” vs “it’s not so bad and you can manage” the winner is “you have a deadline in may so you’ll have to deal with it later”

[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! 🤣

[unofficialchronicle]

“Becoming more human has been difficult and frightening at times, but being more genuine allows me to have real relationships, real communication, and real happiness.”

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“Trying to be in control is an effective method of keeping loved ones at a distance.”

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Courage to Change, Al Anon Daily Reader p. 334.

[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

[megid0nt]

[yandereshingeki]

ive been doing so many interviews lately (over exaggerating greatly ive done like 3 in the last 3 weeks) But I had a phone interview with a place and now i go for an interview-person one on Monday, please pray for me i need this job so bad I need the money

[guiltyidealist]

I reformatted Co-Dependents Anonymous's Recovery Patterns pages

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

[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 >:(