My Alcoholism & Recovery

I find it increasingly difficult sitting in AA meeting. I have to listen to some very crazy stuff, often from the same people over and over, some speak for up to ten minutes when taking their turn to share.

At a point in the past I had thought it does not matter what I hear at meetings, just the fact of being there was good for me, but now I have been having problems listening to people a long time sober talking for an absolute age, basically giving lectures to the room.

Another issue on the same subject has been the amount of mad people in meetings that are physically threatening. This has been on the increase in the last few years. One of the results of this is that meeting are often interrupted by these folk speaking while someone else is talking or of them bullying verbally others. It is almost getting to the point of needing security guards at meetings to eject the ones causing disruption

Just need to get this off my chest today.

You having any problems?