You can survive addiction
Al-Anon will help you to gain a better understanding of alcoholism and enable you to change your attitude and approach to the problem, and in so doing improving the environment for everyone in the family.
BARBERTON – A time comes in your life when you finally get it. When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out – enough!
It’s time to stop fighting and crying or struggling to hold on, time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, or for safety and security to come galloping over the horizon. You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect but people will love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are, and that is okay.
You stop blaming other people for the things they did to you, or didn’t do for you, and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected – yourself! You need to take care of yourself.
Millions of people are affected by the excessive drinking of someone close to them. When you pick up any pamphlet or brochure on alcoholism the first thing you’ll learn is that it is a family disease, because those who live in close contact with an alcoholic become sick too, mentally and emotionally. The lack of trust and respect, the lying and covering up for the sufferer compound and worsen the dilemma for the family.
Living with the effects of someone else’s drinking is too devastating for most people to bear without help. You don’t have to suffer alone – there is help.
Al-Anon is a worldwide organisation that offers a programme of recovery for the families and friends of alcoholics whether or not the alcoholic seeks help or even recognises the existence of a drinking problem. Members give and receive comfort and understanding through a mutual exchange of experiences, strengths and hope. Sharing of similar problems binds individuals and groups together in a bond that is protected by a policy of anonymity.
Al-Anon will help you to gain a better understanding of alcoholism and enable you to change your attitude and approach to the problem, and in so doing improving the environment for everyone in the family. You’ll learn that you are not responsible for another person’s disease or recovery from it. You’ll learn to let go of your obsession with another’s behaviour and begin to lead a happier and more manageable life, one with dignity and rights, guided by a power greater than yourself. It is not a religious organisation, counselling agency or a treatment centre. No dues or fees are required and membership is voluntary. The only requirement is that one’s own life has been adversely affected by someone else’s drinking problem.
In Barberton such an organisation exists. Al- Anon members meet every Monday at 17:00.
Enquiries: 076-145-6045, 084-463-9966, 081-519-9501 or 082-473-1570.
Isn’t it time you let go and let God in? It is time you start putting yourself first, and take it one day at a time.
