12 STEP PROGRAM OPPORTUNISTS AND PARASITES

In describing this ilk of attendee to meetings of NA-my former fellowship of choice(I no longer attend any 12 Step fellowship meetings)-I will clarify this by describing them as those who make money from other “addicts”.
First, I must explain my view of an “addict”. “Addicts” are those caught up in a continual addiction pattern which they have yet to overcome. Everyone else calling themselves as such uses the noun as an affectation or a distortion-because usually, they deny their complete recovery. At this point I use recovery as a past tense, since many have completely overcome their addiction and others use the term as a crutch, an excuse not to change their behaviors or cop out on general mistakes they make. In the end, a lot of this winds up ongoing self-deprecation.

Many of these “addicts” get a sort of Messianic complex where they distort the 12th Step, “Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry the message to addicts and practice these principles in all our affairs.” Actually, many use this to justify exploiting(sub-consciously or consciously) others and gratifying their lack of self-esteem by believing they are actually helping other addicts “recover” from their disease. The high relapse rates of most counseling, 12 Step Programs, halfway houses, and other recovery industry institutions and businesses show this these efforts as in-efficacious and exploitative.

I think they ought to get exposed as often as possible on a case by case basis. In particular, the self-styled gurus of all this nonsense ought to get turned out publicly at every chance to give overcoming addiction every opportunity to capitalize on one of the strongest, most effective strategies-peer pressure to overcome, rather than cliques and cultist characteristics. When the “recovered” share their strategies for free or charge for them on a result basis, we then have peerage subject to oversight by the end user(lol). The recovery industry has over a billion dollars of revenue each year and got created primarily to be affiliated with the counseling and pharmaceutical industries for the purpose of having ongoing clientele, like most businesses. Counselors with “credentials”, e.g. Psych degrees, counseling degrees, and “addiction” certifications, ought to be scrutinized on the basis of their results and efficacy and given consumer ratings by independent, nonprofit oversight groups funded by taxing these bastards. Yes, I don’t like most of them and see the counselors in particular, albeit most of them mislead by their teachers and other affiliated “professionals”, as parasites. These individuals keep themselves from business or employment which earns them a socially productive, honest means of making a living.

Of course, people pay psychics, and other pseudo professional counselors for a feel good or some form of edification inasmuch as I enjoy a good round of sexual pleasure for some form of social exchange-at least when I do this I am mostly going to get a desired result with some form of consensual exchange.

Yes, a good orgasm usually works better than counseling which sucks money from its clients for years or from 12 Step program fellowships where much of the prattle involves telling participants they have an incurable disease and may need meetings, sponsorship, and the Twelve Steps for the rest of their lives.

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