{"id":198898,"date":"2020-02-07T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T07:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/why-12-step-programs-are-toxic\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T07:19:29","slug":"why-12-step-programs-are-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/why-12-step-programs-are-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 12 Step Programs Are Toxic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mzWXw24ZZtY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Since I finally feel ready to talk more about my own addiction recovery, &#038; pass on some hopefully helpful tips, including tapering off a 30-40 unit-per-day alcohol habit without help, since physical addiction to alcohol is a *sod* of a corner to get backed into, when you know cold turkey would kill you, but either you can&#8217;t get into rehab or the programs aren&#8217;t right for you &#8211; while 12 Step would you have you believe you are *incapable* of consuming alcohol in a limited, medicinal, tapering capacity, it *is* possible, I did it, &#038; I&#8217;d like to pass that on, along with advice on keeping &#8216;occasional&#8217; drinks or dabblings just that, so, subscribe if you&#8217;re interested in seeing those over the next few weeks! &#8230;but before I talked about anything recovery oriented, I knew I had to address the braying elephant in the room of every recovery discussion, which is 12 Step, &#038; why it is *not* the doctrine I personally follow. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#038; YouTube, I know you&#8217;re gonna auto-demonetise this video, &#038; *you* know I&#8217;m gonna contest that decision &#8211; so long as you have an algorithm capable of filtering alcohol ads off this vid &#8211; &#038; you know darn well you do &#8211; I see absolutely no cause for positive mental health tips to be deemed Too Naughty For Ads, but god forbid anyone talk about things that matter on this increasingly shoddy platform anymore; #gottabeshallowfordatcoin , right?! O___O<\/p>\n<p>-Patreon.com\/ofherbsandaltars \u2013 where secret videos &#038; dragon scale glove giveaways happen, &#038; most of my YouTube content you will get early access to &#8211; $2 gets you in the club \u2013 join usssss! \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n-Instagram \u2013 ofherbsandaltars<br \/>\n-My book of horror stories, including a vampire novella, which is a prelude to the novel I&#8217;m working on currently: search Amazon for The Putrescent Vein, available in print or on Kindle! :3<br \/>\n-Music \u2013 Amazon, iTunes, Spotify: 4am Vampire Blues by Neon Midnight, iTunes linkiepoo is here:<br \/>\n-And album number 2, Retribution, is here:<br \/>\n-Angry Vampires \u2013 ofherbsandaltars.wordpress.com<br \/>\n-Short stories \u2013 theputrescentvein.wordpress.com<br \/>\n-FB \u2013 www.facebook.com\/ofherbsandaltars<br \/>\nIMPORTANT NOTE: I have a new PO Box, so scrap the old address if you have it, I\u2019m now overr hyarr!:<br \/>\nDorian B<br \/>\nInitial Business Centre<br \/>\nWilson Business Park<br \/>\nManchester<br \/>\nM40 8WN<br \/>\nUK<br \/>\n&#8211;if sending anything to PO Box, please mark as &#8216;gift&#8217; so I&#8217;m not hit with customs charges! I appreciate everyone who takes the time, but customs charges are super hard to sort out via a PO Box and can sometimes result in the item being returned to sender before I get it sorted :-\/ so yeah, mark as gift and all should go smoothly!\u2014<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mzWXw24ZZtY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I finally feel ready to talk more about my own addiction recovery, &#038; pass on some hopefully helpful tips, including tapering off a 30-40 unit-per-day alcohol habit without help, since physical addiction to alcohol is a *sod* of a corner to get backed into, when you know cold turkey would kill you, but either &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59191],"tags":[92160,5397,92162,92159,19893,92158,92163,10496,92161,59984,5572,17918,60547],"class_list":["post-198898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-59191","tag-dealing-with-husband","tag-free","tag-marital-life","tag-marital-relationship-after-birth","tag-mobile","tag-moroccan-twitter","tag-my-husband","tag-programs","tag-relationship-between-spouses","tag-software","tag-stories","tag-today","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}