The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
starring Benjamin Bratt... did anyone besides myself see this show on A & E lastnite? What did you think? I thought it was great... Ben plays a recovered addict, who is now a bounty hunter looking for drug, alcohol and gambling addicts... He has a team who helps him hunt down these addicts one by one, and captures the addict and involuntarily places that person in rehab.
He is usually sought after by desperate family members who can't take their addicted family member's problems anymore... I believe this is based on a true story... can you imagine that?
I wish I could hire someone to capture my husband and put him in a inpatient program for an entire year... this show looks to be very promising this season...
I feel asleep so I didn't watch it. I know we have all longed for an A to be willing to seek treatment and get better.
The issue for me is that I have to take my focus off what others need to do and put it on what I need to do to work on me rather than obsess on them. I can feel like I know exactly what's wrong with everyone. In fact I only have control over me.
I know watching intervention and even Dr. Drew is a resource of some sorts. On the other hand we need a program about intervention for codependents. We need someone to swoop in and make codependents take care of themselves and have joy and laughter in their lives too. I'm not sure what kind of program that will be but for some of us codependents our lives are threatened by our behavior as much as any addict's acting out is.
That would be a great concept for a show... I guess there could be a spinoff of "Intervention"... maybe life coaching for suffering family members, Al Anon meetings, vacations. things that pull attention off of A's... interesting...
Well I think for me the issue is i suffer with or without an A. I think there is a "match" for me in an A or some other person and that is who I gravitate towards. Certainly my current life is affected by having lived with an A but with or without one I'm codependent.
I also find myself really wanting to justify not attending to red flags when I meet new people. Oh they have all those problems well so what? I can move ahead with this when really I can't not if I really want to change.
Well I think for me the issue is i suffer with or without an A. I think there is a "match" for me in an A or some other person and that is who I gravitate towards. Certainly my current life is affected by having lived with an A but with or without one I'm codependent.
I also find myself really wanting to justify not attending to red flags when I meet new people. Oh they have all those problems well so what? I can move ahead with this when really I can't not if I really want to change.
Maresie.
That describes me as well.
I'm not codependent as a result of dealing w/ addicts... I attract and gravitate toward addicts because of my codepencency issues. (I think this is because I "learned" much of my coping "skills" from my very very codependent mom who grew up with alcoholics. I didn't grow up with any but I did grow up with my mom's skewed coping mechanisms as an example and I picked them up from very early on.)
I didn't catch The Cleaner but I did DVR it. I've been looking forward to the premier and can't wait to watch it.
(And I love Intervention. That's a regular one for my DVR as well, and where I saw the ad for The Cleaner in the first place.)
