When the 4th and 5th steps are done without support for the symptoms of PTSD, they have the potential to retraumatize.
Tag: AA criticism
There's Nothing Wrong With You If AA Doesn’t Work
It isn’t that you’re incapable of being honest with yourself, or that you’re not working a “program” well enough. You are not too broken, or too far gone.
Alcoholics Anonymous: A Different Perspective
Rather than seeking knowledge through scientific methodology to gather more and more evidence regarding the factual attributes of successful recovery, AA emphasizes scripture, tradition, and the word of authority figures. I recently read an essay on another recovery-oriented site, a site whose focus is on people in 12-step recovery yet who are disinclined to religion.… Continue reading Alcoholics Anonymous: A Different Perspective
