borderline personality

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But like a lot of AA members, however shallow the insight AA gives them,
the real feeling of clarity and control they get is enough. Staying tied to
AA is attractive because they fear getting deep into their problems as they
might with a more sophisticated approach. This is how one therapist I know
puts it.

Mike Ferro
Oakland

Unlike a lot of folks I know I don't hang out with scads of AA people, but
the ones I do know well are almost all in therapy or have been for large
blocks of time over the years.  You really can't generalize since a meeting
in a certain part of town will have a totally different tone from a meeting
somewhere else. You can go deeply into your problems for years, you can gain
insight, but if you use(a lot of heroin and cocaine addicts go to the
meetings I've attended), you're still probably gonna die or end up in jail.

On the other hand I've known a few long-time AA members who I do not believe
have ever had a real drinking problem, but find social contact and a captive
audience in AA.

What really annoys me is the growing number of pot "addicts" trying to kick
the habit.  Gotta be the stupidest outcome of the War on Drugs.