I'm done. I should have known this would happen. Not sure how I actually got involved in as many as I did for as long as I did. The fear of dying and thinking I could not do this on my own surely pushed me into multiple programs for a couple months.
I feel strong enough now that I do not think they offer me anything outside the benefits of general social interaction which is why being in a community is so important for people to really thrive. I feel an online community is good but perhaps not as great as an offline community. We are organic creatures after all.
The video will express more as it directly relates to the title of this thread. I just want to say that I feel addiction is self-created and is separate from chemical dependency, so these meeting programs kind of just look and feel and act like crutches which I feel I should not be leaning on anymore.
What I should be doing is engaging non-using communities offline and I already have more ideas for doing that than I can try out right now. The coming blog entries will debunk the modern notion of addiction (as a disease) and share my jaunts exploring non-addiction related communities offline which is a huge part of recovery for me as I was an isolator (goes hand in hand with a "chemfap" vice) pun intended.
That's all for now I guess in this one, and please use self-help meetings if you feel isolated and don't see any other ways of being more social and just reaching out for support if you genuinely want/need some. But there is that here too, and this is a great community just not as organic as offline that is all.
Well here is another video. Could not find the original I had in mind but thought it was somehow related to The Sober Truth by Lance Dodes M.D.,
I feel strong enough now that I do not think they offer me anything outside the benefits of general social interaction which is why being in a community is so important for people to really thrive. I feel an online community is good but perhaps not as great as an offline community. We are organic creatures after all.
The video will express more as it directly relates to the title of this thread. I just want to say that I feel addiction is self-created and is separate from chemical dependency, so these meeting programs kind of just look and feel and act like crutches which I feel I should not be leaning on anymore.
What I should be doing is engaging non-using communities offline and I already have more ideas for doing that than I can try out right now. The coming blog entries will debunk the modern notion of addiction (as a disease) and share my jaunts exploring non-addiction related communities offline which is a huge part of recovery for me as I was an isolator (goes hand in hand with a "chemfap" vice) pun intended.
That's all for now I guess in this one, and please use self-help meetings if you feel isolated and don't see any other ways of being more social and just reaching out for support if you genuinely want/need some. But there is that here too, and this is a great community just not as organic as offline that is all.
Well here is another video. Could not find the original I had in mind but thought it was somehow related to The Sober Truth by Lance Dodes M.D.,
