Galatea
07-08-2004, 06:08 PM
I am posting a series of 30 multiple part questions over a 30 day period. These questions relate to recovery from compulsive overeating issues. Feel free to post your answers here as a means of assisting yourself and helping others in recovery. Reading others responses and participating in the writing process may help us to gain insight into our realtionship with food, our body, and our life so that we can support each other and know that we are not alone. If you feel more comfortable journaling these answers privately, at least come in and post a smiley icon when you are finished, (if you feel comfortable with that) so that others will know they are not alone. If you respond to someone elses answers, please be very careful to not judge their experience.
A.) Reread Step 1 (12/12)
http://www.c-zone.net/drgnldy8/step1.html
B.) Discuss the idea that when one overeater plants in the mind of another the true nature of our disease, that overeater can never be the same again. On page 23, of the 12/12, step 1, they talk of what is called "raising the bottom". This means that because of all the wisdom and knowledge that our forefathers in AA had gathered through their own life experience as alcoholics, we could benefit in such a way that we would not have to go down to the depths that so many had gone before us... we could be spared by their experiences which would save us years and years of suffering. This, of course, brings us to the question at hand. On page 24, it states (on top), "It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady that person could never be the same again."
A.) Reread Step 1 (12/12)
http://www.c-zone.net/drgnldy8/step1.html
B.) Discuss the idea that when one overeater plants in the mind of another the true nature of our disease, that overeater can never be the same again. On page 23, of the 12/12, step 1, they talk of what is called "raising the bottom". This means that because of all the wisdom and knowledge that our forefathers in AA had gathered through their own life experience as alcoholics, we could benefit in such a way that we would not have to go down to the depths that so many had gone before us... we could be spared by their experiences which would save us years and years of suffering. This, of course, brings us to the question at hand. On page 24, it states (on top), "It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady that person could never be the same again."