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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 564213" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>AG, I've attended quite a few open AA meeting, as well as general substance abuse meetings, where the addicts as well as the families participate in open discussions. Attendance at these groups was a part of the codependency program I've been in for a year. Like you, I was deeply moved by the stories of pain, relapses, the remarkable guilt and underneath so much, the shame. Very often, I heard that the substance abuse covered much deeper issues of mental illness, child abuse, incest or sexual abuse. It's complicated and never ceases to give me a reality check of how flawed and vulnerable we humans are. I've often been moved to tears as I listened to not only what the chemically dependent folks were saying, but the incredible pain of the families, sometimes both parents, the grandparents, the sisters and brothers were all there................real life people with real tears and pained faces and broken hearts...............like the words we read here but up close and personal............I learned a lot too.............there was also strength, courage, hope and success as they struggled with their recovery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 564213, member: 13542"] AG, I've attended quite a few open AA meeting, as well as general substance abuse meetings, where the addicts as well as the families participate in open discussions. Attendance at these groups was a part of the codependency program I've been in for a year. Like you, I was deeply moved by the stories of pain, relapses, the remarkable guilt and underneath so much, the shame. Very often, I heard that the substance abuse covered much deeper issues of mental illness, child abuse, incest or sexual abuse. It's complicated and never ceases to give me a reality check of how flawed and vulnerable we humans are. I've often been moved to tears as I listened to not only what the chemically dependent folks were saying, but the incredible pain of the families, sometimes both parents, the grandparents, the sisters and brothers were all there................real life people with real tears and pained faces and broken hearts...............like the words we read here but up close and personal............I learned a lot too.............there was also strength, courage, hope and success as they struggled with their recovery. [/QUOTE]
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