Alas, out of AA for a year now, and still sober.
Forum: Clergy and Therapy Abuse

Barbara - your last post summed it up perfectly. Beautifully executed. The best way I can describe it is this: Bill Wilson had me in the palm of his hand, like a spider, and had a scapel in the other hand and he pooked me with it, and cut me with it, and jabbed me with it. I felt sadistically trapped on the spot whilst the dogma (the scapal) was painful. Not all the time, for sure. Somet
Forum: Clergy and Therapy Abuse

I have just left the AA cult - and I am still be bit disturbed by it all, and very angry. I have not been to a meeting in a about a year now, though I have still stayed sober. Have you been here: orange-papers.org A great website for all of those who did not get to the 'broad highway'. You take care, MJ
Forum: Recovery from Destructive Cults and Groups

Thanks for responding; you outline your bening experience within AA - and I am sure that you experience can indeed be passed on. You were two years younger than me when you went into AA - I went in at 23. I was, as you say, on my knees - but that did not justify a complete manipulation and change in character. I was a young man who messed his life up, and I went to AA to stop drinking, and ge
Forum: Clergy and Therapy Abuse

I am writing this to maybe get some validation for my extreme distrust and anger toward Alcoholics Anonymous. I spent two years in this fellowship, and was told that if I did not doubt my own thinking, judgement, intuition, then I would die. Its as simple as that. I was told to embrace the programs belief system in meeting after meeting, over and over – its ‘this way or jails institutions, and
Forum: Clergy and Therapy Abuse