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| 1. | Growing Pains (by P. A. K.) Texas -- MY FIRST encounter with my addictive personality came on my fifteenth birthday. I was in the hospital; the diagnosis was "nervous condition"; the treatment was morphine and tranquilizers. Very quickly I learned to produce agonizing headaches to keep those needles and pills coming. But my physician soon caught on. I was withdrawn from the drugs and sent home with a bottle of sugar pills. I had overheard the plot, and I wondered why on earth the doctor would do such a thing. | July 1969 | |
| 2. | Thank You, Casper (by Anonymous) Massachusetts -- I WAS THE little kid hiding in the clothes closet, crying "I hate you, God!" because Dad was drunk again and fighting with Mom. In that closet, I made two decisions: the first, that I would never drink; the second, that there was no God. | July 1969 | |
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| 4. | The First Step: Phase Two (by A. H.) New York -- TONIGHT I attended a discussion meeting on Step Three. It had such an impact on me that I am still shaken as I write this. As a guide toward long-term, comfortable sobriety, this meeting is probably of greater importance than the first meeting I attended. In a sense, I retook the First and Third Steps tonight, only with much greater awareness, faith, and feeling. | July 1969 | |
| 5. | Young People and AA ONE OF THE most heartwarming happenings of our time is the ever-increasing number of young people joining the ranks of AA. Somehow the message has come through that it is not necessary to throw away a lifetime before asking for help. And rarely, nowadays, do we hear old-timers saying, "You! You're not old enough to be an alcoholic!" In AA, we are building bridges across the generation gap. | July 1969 | |
| 6. | Young People's Groups (by J. G.) California -- MY FIRST contact with AA was in Buffalo, N.Y., over eleven years ago, at the age of twenty-three. The number of young people in AA was small, and I was lost and lonely as ever. I could identify readily with the members' stories, as I'd been in bad shape from day one, but how to get well was something else. I stayed sober purely on guts for almost two years. | July 1969 | |
| 7. | Youth Reaches Out to Youth (by J. C.) Texas -- LESS THAN a year ago, Bunky was a patient in the alcoholic ward of a state hospital. | July 1969 | |
| 8. | It Was Hard to Believe (by P. B.) Nevada -- I CAME TO Alcoholics Anonymous when I was twenty-eight years old. It was not my worst drunk that sent me, nor was it the one that caused me the most problems with the law, but it was the worst for me mentally. I had made a contact with AA one year before, and I had walked out of that meeting very disgusted with the caliber of people there, as I saw them, and more disgusted with the things they said. These things made me feel guilty, insecure, and uncertain. So, as had become my pattern, I ran away. | May 1975 | |
| 9. | Preamble to Recovery (by W. C.) Illinois -- WE PUT the AA Preamble in the Labor News, a once-a-week paper. Last week, a man who left AA twenty years ago happened to read it. Even though he was drunk, he got hold of another AA member and went to his first meeting again. And last night at a meeting, a friend told me he was still sober. I guess that makes it all worthwhile. | May 1975 | |
| 10. | Old Enough to Qualify (by H. T.) California -- SOMETIMES, I get discouraged and lose sight of our primary purpose. Tonight, I was reminded of it and given the encouragement to keep on working in AA. | January 1978 | |
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