how do I stop being a raging alcoholic? does AA actually work? any advice would be great. cheers.

different friends, who give you crap when you drink. AA might work because most of them know to give you instant negative feedback when you indulge in your urges.
association of negative feelings when indulge will do good, stories of hope are massive do not underestimate celebrating others victories over addiction; 1950s, Curt Richter hope experiment exemplifies its power.

AA worked for me once I actually took the steps seriously and concerned myself with sponsoring others. The meetings alone won’t really sustain you for long. I haven’t had a drink in 4 years. I wish you the best.

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>>936244781
thanks. after my 5th DUI I think I'm done with this fucking shit.

>>936244541 (OP)
Literally just stop buying alcohol
Gg ez

>>936244541 (OP)
the shits alone would make me want to stop
smoke weed OP

>>936244873
How have you gotten 5 dui's? Where I live if you get a 3rd dui it's an automatic 1 years in the pen and permanent revocation of your license

>>936244541 (OP)
Yes it can work. Anything can work if youre ready. Are you ready?
If you're not ready, you can look forward to a seriously shit life of pain, loneliness, degradation, shakes, anxiety, 3am terrors, cold sweats, hopelessness, poverty, scorn, craving, and the unique feeling of having every cell in your body hurt.
Good luck.

>>936244541 (OP)
You don't. Life will only get much worse when you quit drinking. AA is nothing more than a club for losers with a shame kink. Stick to the bottle, it's gotten you this far. Why shake things up now?

>>936244541 (OP)
Most important thing about any addiction is it is not just the substance but the context in which the substance is taken. Change up all your habits and routines as much as possible, not matter how minor they may seem. Rearrange the furniture, if you leave through the front door - now leave through the back. At least temporarily cut off contact with drinking friends. Also cue substitutes can help. For example I have I highball glass with just water and ice cubes. The cubes clanking in the glass gives me the sensory context of having a drink. Think of it as doing a psyop on yourself. Also don't forget if you are a serious alcoholic you can't quite cold turkey. Don't stock booze in your house. Buy a gradually lessening amount to drink for that day

yes AA does work. Good luck anon we're with you

>>936249931
Lol

>>936249931
AA will tell you it's literally impossible to quit drinking, and try to convert you to Christianity. The whole thing is a bait-and-switch.
Christfags are literally preying on the most vulnerable to get cheap converts.

>>936253012
ya, lol

Been drinking spirits ever since my girl left me

>>936244541 (OP)
have a deep conversation with chatgpt and heal the wound you think alcohol will fill

Get out. Seriously, go stay in a cottage in the woods for a few weeks. It's easier to not get trapped first thing in the morning, when you're completely outside of your familiar environment en routines.
Go take walks, hikes, smell, breath, look, listen, ground.
Cook, dance, bake, do pushups, split wood, whatever gives you some fullfillment.
Physical excercise and being in nature helps immensely mentally.
After the first 2 weeks, it's purely self-conditioning. Everytime you get a craving, you need to tell yourself you just have to sit it through for a few minutes and the worst craving will fade. And it's true, it does. It's the same when quitting smoking. Every craving it gets easier.

If you're telling yourself right now; ill try it soon - tomorrow - after this drink - when ive done X - after Y passed - when the fucking starts align.... then you don't want it enough, you're not rock bottom.

>>936244541 (OP)
AA is just trying to make you a tithe-paying churchy. Just try reducing your intake. Instead of 10 beers, stop at 9. Move your way down.

>>936244873
Jesus dude how are you not in jail? You have to find a way to stop. Not just because you're driving drunk, you're literally committing suicide by drinking. You'll die decades sooner and your quality of life for the time you do have with be shit.

>>936253012
This anon
>>936248337
And this anon
Speak only the truth. AA is a cult.

>>936254177
I was in and out of rehabs for almost a decade, and I was drunk almost every single day, for a couple of years

Yes AA works, but you really have to force yourself not to scoff and take the advice they give seriously and without question.
They don't force you to become christian, but one of the steps is to surrender to a higher power. Your higher power can be anything. I think believing in something greater than yourself has a real effect on your chance of recovery.

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>>936255859
The 12 Steps came from the evangelical Oxford Group. Bill Wilson had his own 'spiritual' experience that made him stop drinking miraculously one day, and discovered the 12 Steps as drafted by the Oxford group's minister. It was a devout group of christians, the minister wished it to become a global christian movement.

The only significant changed made to adapt the 12 steps for AA was changing every mention of God to "God as we know him". AA then tries to convince you that you can never have power over alcohol, you are hopeless to control it on your own, so the Higher Power does all the work instead. Have faith in the magic slogans as you said, and praying to your Higher Power will made all the bad thoughts that made you become a drunk will be powerless instead.

Prayer is simply not secular, nor is a "spiritual community" with its traditions perfectly compatible with any worldview, it's hard to take the program's claim of not being anything like a religion seriously when its whole program came directly from a christian group and they insist on all the god language, all the way to making groups say the Serenity prayer, which was also coined by a pastor.

That being said, if any anons managed to fix their life through AA, great, keep at it, it has certainly helped a lot of people. But it makes a lot of assumptions on how the program is supposed to be perceived.

Sweet words might just earn you my attention. emaquiie

Everybody has different ways of quitting. It took a health scare for me to quit. Almost died from a seizure and going through DTs. Never touched it since

>>936244541 (OP)
I recommend Narcotics Anonymous instead of Alocholics Anonymous. It absolutely works... if you work your program.

>>936244541 (OP)
AA will make you more mad.