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Step we are on: Step Two
Chapter: "We
Agnostics"
Subject: Depression, PTSD,
Suicide, Financial Loss, Atheism
Good morning. Today we are learning
about the minister’s son and the kind of life he had. You will find it to be
very close to what many alcoholics commonly experience today.
- How had he come to feel about religious matters?
He attended church school, where he became rebellious at what he thought an overdose of religious education.
- Was his life one of happiness and peace of mind?
For years thereafter he was dogged by trouble and frustration.
- What things did he experience?
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide
- How did they affect him?
these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.
It has been said that alcoholism runs in families. While pathologically identifiable diseases can certainly run in families, alcoholism is
not a disease. Nor is it depicted as one in the Big Book. (Surprised?) Instead the AA description of alcoholism characterizes its (mental/physical) condition as symptom of the real disease.
What really "runs" in families is spiritual disease -- contagious emotional states (anger) passed on from parent to child which sends family members away from God to seek solutions to the pain cause by their own bitterness. Depressions is common. Food and sex are frequently the solutions and that includes alcohol.
What really "runs" in families is spiritual disease -- contagious emotional states (anger) passed on from parent to child which sends family members away from God to seek solutions to the pain cause by their own bitterness. Depressions is common. Food and sex are frequently the solutions and that includes alcohol.
Depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, overeating/obesity,
sexual/relational addictions are ALL are
symptoms of spiritual disease (anger-induced
agnosticism)
- But that was not all. What else?
Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious alcoholism, impending mental and physical collapse,
Post-war disillusionment - what we
call PTSD today - is a spiritual corruption a condition condition brought on by suppressed anger.
It causes many people, including soldiers to turn to drugs like antidepressants, opioids and even foods like alcohol and sugar.
Although it is not discussed publicly too much, these sufferers also develop severe sexual addictions and suffer from the inability to have healthy relationships. It is not pretty. It also is not new. Unfortunately it is not rare either.
It causes many people, including soldiers to turn to drugs like antidepressants, opioids and even foods like alcohol and sugar.
Although it is not discussed publicly too much, these sufferers also develop severe sexual addictions and suffer from the inability to have healthy relationships. It is not pretty. It also is not new. Unfortunately it is not rare either.
- Did his religious upbringing equip him with the grace to properly manage his problematic life?
brought him to the point of self-destruction.
Today this is referred to as
Suicidal Ideation which can mean thinking about suicide without actually making
plans or also having the intent to commit suicide—including planning how to carry
it out.
It is a symptom of major depression and bipolar depression and there is hardly a single real alcoholic who has not experienced it at some time.
It is a symptom of major depression and bipolar depression and there is hardly a single real alcoholic who has not experienced it at some time.
Peace and Love,
Danny S – RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
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