Beginner's Guide to Quitting Alcohol

Alcohol is one of the leading causes of death in America. Learn how to get started quitting alcohol from a licensed professional psychotherapist in this video.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Lifestyle
• Health
• Quitting
• alcohol

[isegoria1]

AA causes more harm that help PERIOD

I would have expected better than a recommendation to a known cult from the livestrong channel.

Can anyone say sucked into the AA propaganda machine? I wonder if you people know of the 5% with and 5% without success ratio for AA?

If you do, I have lost all respect for Lance. I guess personal responsibility is just not part of the game? AA encourages ducking of responsibility and sets screwed up people in control of your life.Take back control of your life.

[Wretchedable]

Wonder if anyone of the ''experts'' ever had any problems

[sugarplumfairiie]

I'm a chronic alcoholic, and I am now sober over three years. AA made me worse, it's literature was so fatal, I drank even worse at that time. To this woman in the video, I agree with some of her points on health, but you have the ability to quit without any support group. I found that people in AA were there looking for something, maybe a friend or a job opportunity, to be comforted, but I also found their literature and advice was toxic and dangerous to a person in the depths of hell.

[YouGotWoodRolled]

@magicis2 werk the steps, soulja! der der der. AA totally isnt a cult. nothing to see here!

[magicis2]

@isegoria1 It work, if you work it.

[71missjo]

My hubs has been going to AA for 9 years now and he has in fact been sober without a relapse for the whole time thus far. I don't know why people think it doesn't work? I also know many other people that are in the program that maintain sobriety thanks to AA. It isn't a cult, for pete's sake! Sounds like the haters may have been the folks who tried it and relapsed? No one is perfect, battling addiction is hard to overcome, but people can do it. What works for some may not for others, that's all.

[StudentExpertPM]

So many haters in here. Why hate on something that HAS (whether you say so or not) helped thousands of people escape addiction?

It's not the ONLY way, but it's certainly A WAY out.

[charlinaj2007]

AA requires you to surrender your power. AA requires you to wallow in guilt and shame. AA requires you to spend freetime with loser addicts who are in the meetings for no other reason than to appease the courts. (another thing...how do courts get away with mandating AA meetings?? a story for another time. ) AA has a huge failure rate. It is not for everyone...in fact, it's not for most! I quit drinking with the help of my regualr doctor & some good information from a psychiatrist.

[cprs9]

How about addiction to plastic surgery, missus?

[RoyRollux]

What a vague video. It's like what your GP would tell you.

[ndrthrdr1]

AA is okay if you believe in faith healing. AA is based on learned helplessness and praying. As a nonbeliever, I had one long, horrible year in AA. Then I found SMARTRecovery, and everything changed. SMART is science-based, not faith-based. They have lots of good advice on their website, plus a forum, online chat, and actual meetings in many areas. I'm sober 2 1/2 years now, and I meet lots of people in SMART who live in the real world, unlike those I met in the AA cult.

[prschuster]

I am not saying that AA is harmful to everyone, but it isn't the only viable approach to quitting addictions. What really irritates me the most about this video is that this professional therapist doesn't even mention the fact that there are so many other methods available beside AA. It's unprofessional to ignore them and then to recommend AA as the preferred choice.