The Big Book teaches self loathing unfortunately. It's disguised as 'tough love' -and it's abusive as hell. For example, newcomers who are jonesing and complaining of lost sleep are told 'lack of sleep never killed anyone'. How nice. Well, sleeping too much never killed anyone either. Be good to yourself. Find some recovered alcoholics in your homegroup who possess a loviing attitude. Good luck.
I myself was actually told a lack of sleep never killed anyone! And I was told this as I was detoxing in meetings. It wasn’t great.
The Big Book teaches self loathing unfortunately. It's disguised as 'tough love' -and it's abusive as hell. For example, newcomers who are jonesing and complaining of lost sleep are told 'lack of sleep never killed anyone'. How nice. Well, sleeping too much never killed anyone either. Be good to yourself. Find some recovered alcoholics in your homegroup who possess a loviing attitude. Good luck.