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Sponsor system in 'x' Anonymous. Can someone enlighten me?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 606078" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>difficult child complains that in this group they talk too much about gambling. That always during and after a meeting he has hard time trying to redirect his thoughts off gambling and not to get sucked back to letting his thoughts wallow in all things gambling. difficult child has been taught to school his thoughts so, that every time he starts to even think gambling, he redirects, because circling around the topic just makes urges worse and relapsing more likely.</p><p></p><p>difficult child feels that in this group (the other one he likes better but as I said, when the season starts, it is not a possibility) they tell 'war stories' and those who have gambled, and lost, the most are considered the biggest experts and 'heroes' of the group.</p><p></p><p>What I have found in my research, this seems to be a problem with 'x' Anonymous systems at times. Meeting groups are autonomous and if in some group there are one or few strong characters that start to lead the group to some direction, there is nothing that stops that. Newcomers, if they don't like the direction, change to other groups (if available) or stop coming, but nothing forces those strong willed individuals to look at the mirror and reconsider. I suspect that something like that may be going on in this group difficult child attends. difficult child just doesn't have much choice. While he lives close enough to few big cities and even one huge one, international (e.a. English speaking) GA groups are not that easy to find and difficult child doesn't speak the main language of his current country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 606078, member: 14557"] difficult child complains that in this group they talk too much about gambling. That always during and after a meeting he has hard time trying to redirect his thoughts off gambling and not to get sucked back to letting his thoughts wallow in all things gambling. difficult child has been taught to school his thoughts so, that every time he starts to even think gambling, he redirects, because circling around the topic just makes urges worse and relapsing more likely. difficult child feels that in this group (the other one he likes better but as I said, when the season starts, it is not a possibility) they tell 'war stories' and those who have gambled, and lost, the most are considered the biggest experts and 'heroes' of the group. What I have found in my research, this seems to be a problem with 'x' Anonymous systems at times. Meeting groups are autonomous and if in some group there are one or few strong characters that start to lead the group to some direction, there is nothing that stops that. Newcomers, if they don't like the direction, change to other groups (if available) or stop coming, but nothing forces those strong willed individuals to look at the mirror and reconsider. I suspect that something like that may be going on in this group difficult child attends. difficult child just doesn't have much choice. While he lives close enough to few big cities and even one huge one, international (e.a. English speaking) GA groups are not that easy to find and difficult child doesn't speak the main language of his current country. [/QUOTE]
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