Public Information about Alcoholics Anonymous in Great Britain

Most people, even heavy drinkers, can learn to control their drinking or even stop completely on their own. But if you want to quit and find that you can't you'd be welcome at any AA meeting. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking
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After going to a number of AA meetings in Great Britain, there's a trend that's taken shape.
It's also infected meetings throughout the US.
This trend is, being soft on ourselves, but hard on everyone else.
The BB, clearly states that the reverse is necessary for recovery from the mental-illness called Alcoholism.
People everywhere these days, seem to treat AA meetings as group therapy. Here's the deal; the AA program, which was written by Bill Wilson in 1934, is in the first 164 pages of the AA textbook.
The FELLOWSHIP (meetings), have nothing to do with the Program. They're simply a supporting element TO the program. Far too many people today, throw out their OPINIONS in open AA meetings, irrespective of the program.
Far too many people are now talking about things like, the "importance of forgiving themselves."
It doesn't say anything like that in the first 164. In fact, it tells us that we must be "HARD on ourselves, but easy on others."
In AA's beginnings, 50% of people got well IMMEDIATELY. Another 25% got well after a few relapses. Of the remaining 25%, they showed improvement if they kept trying.
Compare that with the EASIER, SOFTER way of today.
Need I really say more?