12-Step
Once you hit bottom and discover the ladder of a 12-Step program, you are surely among the most grateful people in the world. Every rung of this ladder is a new gift. Inspire others by your own gratitude, and learn from theirs.

I can only speak from own experience of getting sober. I didn't join a 12-Step group in March and solve everything by April. It's been more a daily living of recovery and learning. Mostly I learned from other people who became my family and have remained so. Didn't do all by myself and have managed to remain sober for a long time now. And it gets better all the time as I grow in the program and life. Don't give up. It is hard in the beginning.
- Suchin, USA   30 Jul 2010

A properly qualified hypnotherapist can help you help yourself. Let me stress hypnotherapy is not hypnotism, there is no trance or blacking out involved. Your subconscious knows what is best for you and how to go about it, hypnotherapy brings the solution to the surface. It works wonders. Best Wishes.
- DL, UK   24 May 2010

I keep climbing the rungs of the ladder and just as I reach the top I tumble down, never quite reaching the twelth rung maybe some day I will finally reach the 12th step!
- mjh, Aus   24 May 2010

I have learned that gratefulness comes from offering what I can to others who are in need. My experience can be of benefit. The insight I receive through listening to those who came before as well as those who have just come is always available to spread to those who want it. A friend once told me that "Gratitude is verb." I think she was right. Thanks Charlene.
- JJ, Hollywood, MD   20 May 2010

I have progressed to too much. Before beer was it. Then two for $10 (botttles of wine) were way too much. Now, a large Heineken before I move onto my two for ten. Please God make it stop. I can hide right now but in a month I will be living wih fiance who doesn't drink and doesn't know how much I do. Does anyone have a cure!? The meetings are infuriating. Also, all I think about is drinking during and after the meeting. How am I going to beat this? Worse..I have told myself I would rather drink than be like the "other" half.
- SalmonCreek, Mass.   27 Mar 2010

Anyone around?
- Suchin,   11 Feb 2010

WS, You are in the right place to get help. Take it one day at a time, attend meetings, get all you can out of the detox facility. The answers are here. Many of us have found sobriety and happiness. You can, too.
- Suchin, US   13 Jan 2010

Hi, I just wanted to update my old comment (posted back in 2004). My recovery from Social Anxiety has continued after all these years thanks to "Social Anxiety Anonymous" / "Social Phobics Anonymous" (A 12 Step Program for Social Anxiety problems also known as or Social Phobia). Anyway this young 12 Step program has really grown over the last 6 years and now has groups overseas as well, proving that the 12 Steps can really help Social Anxiety problems. I also wanted to mention that they have a new phone number now: 970-222-5380 Best to all in 2010!
- JP, Colorado   4 Jan 2010

I just totaled my car, Rolled it over. Got a DUI. My brother was with me. I am so thankful that we are alive. Im checking into a detox facility and straitening up. I am at rock bottom and need serious help.
- W.S., Victorville   11 Dec 2009

I'am very gratefull that my friend Lanita had share this great site with me. That I also had share it with some of my other friends. I'am gratefull to be alive and well, to have my families,have great friends, but most of all to have God in my life! I will be supporting this great site! DJ, CA 06 Oct 2009
- Diane J, CA   6 Oct 2009

This is the most beautiful site on the internet. Sacred Space by the Irish Jesuits comes in second.
- Suchin, USA   29 Aug 2009

i am for sure among the most grateful humans on earth, by having found this site and brother david. no one will be surprised that it happened one day after giving up to desire a teacher to organize eight years devotion to a project, that attracted so many partners, but none who where not out for money. i can and feel the desire to say this is the right place, before i even had the time to read more . i am among the most grateful humans to have found the right place to contribute. it must be free, i cannot understand how people can charge for selling enlightenment. be it ken wilber or any other, i cannot believe them and i did not want to follow even by reading their writing, as long as they charge. donations - and gifts. but the content must be free. to create access even for those who are stuck or would not feel the conscious need. yes, creating desire - but never charge for enlightenment. if i am wrong, i am grateful to meet a person who can explain to me why
- j, austria   30 Jul 2009