NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/recovery/3832

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From: [e-mail] (emil rojas)
Subject: Re: advice wanted on helping alcoholic relative
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I believe the best thing you can do is get yourself and any other
frinds and relatives to go to some Al-anon meetings.  I'll repeat
my/the standard advice because I believe it to be true.  Before you go
commit to going to several different meetings (no less than 3), they
are ALL different.  Al-anon is like the News - each group has what the
people there bring to it, and it offers the safty of (some) anonymity.

AA and Al-anon are NOT religious groups in any standard sense of the word.
But the people you meet there are likely to have deeply held spritual beliefs.

I have heard of all sorts things working as people's higher powers, many
of them having little to do with God.

Alcoholism is a very complex disease.  There is no question in my mind
that it is stress related, on the other hand I is not stress caused!

I also recomend that you go out to your local book stores and find some
books on co-dependence.  Many stores have a recovery section these days.
You will also find intersting information about alcoholism near by.



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