These are my thoughts about AA based on a few months in AA in 1991. I fiarst attended AA on Memorial dy 1991 and stayed there until late October or Early November 1991. I made over 90 in 90. I attended 9 meetings a week every day I made the 6:0'clock meeting and on Saturday I made the noon meeting and on Wednsdays I made the 8O'clock meeting.
This was not good enough for my sponsor and he demanded I make more meetings. I was making more then he was but it still was not enough. My experience in AA was very disurbing. I was forced to through my medication for depression down the toilet and in that short time I just nearly commited suicide due to depression being so bad. I keep hearing I was just in a bad group, but the people I have met since convinces that this tryp of behaviour is the norm for AA.
I may post the whole story one day but righ now this is about it. Long story short. Ileft AA relapsed, but on Feb 29,1992 I pulled my last drunk. I have been sober for over 15 years now and did it without AA.
I co own a yahoo group called without_AA. We have people who have been burned by AA and it is more of a place to discuss the wrongs of AA than a therapy group. The group can be found here http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/without_aa/.