Re: Getting my identity back! (Bob Marshall)

[Guest guest]

Glad you enjoyed it. Yes things can be very insane among people who

believe they are being " restored to sanity. " I shudder when I think

of some of the things that came out of my own mouth when I was

playing this game. You are right: I believe I owe both my obesity

and a period of anorexia to this " program of recovery. " Neither of

these were major problems before I came in to OA. I was a teenager

about 20 pounds overweight.

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This was so brutally funny it made my milk come out my nose!

>

Were you actually drinking milk at the time, or is this something

like stigmata?

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> ----- Original Message -----

> From: <M35@e...>

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> <snip>

> > In the past I would have scared myself right to the nearest phone

for

> > a good tongue lashing from a sponsor or " friend, " who would have

> > given me a lot of reinforcement in feeling like a stupid shit-heel

> <snipped because I couldn't take any more>

>

> Holy sh*t, Batman, the lunacy of this OA stuff is even

worse than

> AA! Guess it's because you can avoid booze, but food is everywhere.

> You were wise to run from these people. I understand that

some OA

> groups welcome anorexics and bulemics... they'd better, because it

sounds

> like OA produces them!

>

> > Even if it is a disease, people seldom make a disease their

> > identity. When a friend had cancer she never had to sit in a

circle

> > of people and say " I'm Kathy and I am cancer incarnate. "

>

> This was so brutally funny it made my milk come out my nose!

> (Sorry if diary products were your " food of choice, " or

whatever.

> Gives new meaning to the comedy song by Corky and the Juice

Pigs: " The Food

> of Your Choice (Will End Your Life Tonight. " )

>

> -- Bob