This is my personal account of how I was hypnotized unethically, which prevented me from seeing a good friend and love interest, and instead made to live in Philippino care homes which resemble DDD soft torture techniques, with staff targeting white people. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uya4SK9oeS8

AA Slogans cause Cognitive Dissonance towards their prospects. Using techniques like circular logic, AA slogans have conflicting meanings meant to disassociate the prospects from where they are. Here are some of these AA slogans and their true meaning. For more AA slogans and their true meaning listen to Monica Richardson hosting Safe Recovery, with me as a guest, on BlogTalkRadio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saferecovery/2015/03/04/aa-slogans-their-true-meaningpart-2-deprogramming-102 The Free Alternatives to Harmful and Dangerous 12-step meetings: SMART Recovery: http://www.smartrecovery.org/ SOS: http://www.sossobriety.org/ and http://www.centerforinquiry.net/sos Moderation Management: http://www.moderation.org/ Women for Sobriety: http://www.womenforsobriety.org HAMS Harm Reduction: http://hamsnetwork.org/ Also See: The Sinclair Method using the drug Naltrexone: http://www.cthreefoundation.org/ and http://www.sinclairmethod.com/ The Goodman Center: http://goodmancenter.com References for Ex-AA members and future Ex-AA members: http://www.expaa.org/apps/links/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1HjQIPlGiQ

As long as we continue under the current "addiction treatment" modality we will continue to convince people they are powerless. And as long as they believe this they will not see the other options available to them. We are basically giving people two choices right now. A choice between their substance and an outdated, ineffective, even harmful and dangerous "program" of "recovery" that involves going cold turkey to achieve complete abstinence for life. And if they don't want that they are offered 'tough love' and a kick to the curb, sometimes for so little as a slip, until they are 'beat up enough to be willing.' That is the prevalent attitude of many people, an attitude accepted, and promoted in large part by today's multibillion dollar treatment industry. This is killing people dead. Concerning AA’s suicide rate. I'll be honest, when I originally started recording videos much of my knowledge came from YouTube videos that had already been made regarding AA. Therefore I based my statement in this video about the suicide rate being 6 times higher in AA on the video "Why AA doesn't work for over 97% of people who join" (this video has since been removed from YouTube). I do not know where the lady in this video got the statistics she stated regarding suicide, and for that I am sorry. Although since the recording of that video I have learned restating this statistic was a bit of a blunder on my part as I have found no evidence to fully support this claim. In part because AA is anonymous and does not keep records of such events, and consequently I now understand why evidence supporting that claim is so hard to come by. On the other hand there is no doubt in my mind regarding there being a higher ratio of depression and suicide as a result of AA attendance. For written accounts of AA suicides See: http://www.orange-papers.info/orange-suicides.html Another interesting video by blamethenile entitled "Post-Suicide 12-step Comments - Alcoholics Anonymous" (found here: https://youtu.be/Vn-wSA5Nx2U ) gives the viewer good insight into how the AA culture responds to suicide among its members. If you review these sources you are likely to agree that not only is the suicide rate in AA higher than average, but it is a direct result of characteristics such as the powerless modality of AA, negative self-talk, and self-fulfilling prophecy about relapse. There is also a host of information written online about the ties between AA and suicide. Here are some good links to check out. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/overcoming-addiction/201408/alcoholics-anonymous-depression-and-suicide http://www.peele.net/faq/aasuicide.html http://www.morerevealed.com/library/horror-stories/jane--aa-suicides.html http://leavingaa.com/alternativeto12step,Stopsexualharassm ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LV1Fm0hppY

Using Leon Festinger theory of cognitive dissonance I dissect relevant and common attitudes held by AA members about recovery, as well as explain some of the dangers of cognitive dissonance in AA/12 Step. The Free Alternatives to Harmful and Dangerous 12-step meetings: SMART Recovery: http://www.smartrecovery.org/ SOS: http://www.sossobriety.org/ and http://www.centerforinquiry.net/sos Moderation Management: http://www.moderation.org/ Women for Sobriety: http://www.womenforsobriety.org HAMS Harm Reduction: http://hamsnetwork.org/ Also See: The Sinclair Method using the drug Naltrexone: http://www.cthreefoundation.org/ and http://www.sinclairmethod.com/ The Goodman Center: http://goodmancenter.com References for Ex-AA members and future Ex-AA members: http://www.expaa.org/apps/links/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjPjJzdevak