Borderline Personality

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>
>This is a libel on AA, although I'm sure an inadvertant one.  AA people
>don't recruit and never will.  The whole point of the name is that many of
>them don't even tell their friends they belong, never mind strangers.
>Their attitude is that if people want them, they'll find them; they're in
>the yellow pages.
>
>My impression is that all that awful intervention stuff comes from AA's
>bastard child Al-Anon and its spin-offs.  Real drunks don't believe in
>intervention.  They think even if someone wants to stop, she has at best a
>50-50 chance.  So there's no point in investing time in people who don't.
>And nobody is more suspicious of a drunk's good intentions than another
>drunk.
>
>Michael

Quite correct.  AA's more subtle than it's given credit for.  AA members 
engage in outreach called "Twelfth-Stepping," but this is only to help 
people who ask for help.

Carl

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