Running head: My visit to an AA meeting I attended a AA meeting on Saturday night at 7: 00 pm in Bergen County Housing Health Human Services Center 120 South River Street. This simple experience opened my eyes as a person and as a future nurse .One of the First things I noted was the alcohol addiction has no social boundaries or race‚ Gendered or age‚ the meeting was very diverse to my surprise. At an AA meeting‚ people with alcoholism are accepted and understood‚ helping many People keep
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Step Meeting The meeting I attended took place in Bothell on a weeknight at 7:00 pm in the evening. The meeting was held in a local church and there were 17 people in attendance‚ excluding myself. Among the 17 people‚ there were 6 women and 11 men. The average attendee was approximately between the ages of 40-50‚ 4 people were under the age of 30‚ and two were somewhere around 60. Of the 17 people‚ 16 were white and one woman was of an Asian-American descent. The focus of the meeting was
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AA Meeting Mandeep Kaur RN 40L July 02‚ 2013 Group Selection: I selected an Alcoholic anonymous meeting. I wanted to see what they do and how it works for people who are alcoholics. I searched alcoholic anonymous meetings in Fresno and found this community service group online at http://fresnoaa.org/home/ Purpose of the group: In Alcoholic Anonymous meeting‚ people gather from community in groups to help one another achieve and maintain abstinence from alcohol. These meetings are free
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AA Meeting After reading and hearing about everyone’s experience with alcohol I decided to attend an AA meeting. I chose this for two reasons‚ one because I wanted to see if these meeting are effective and second because after hearing everyone’s stories I began to doubt myself. I consider myself a social drinker because I like to go out and party mostly every weekend. After learning so much about alcohol I started to wonder if I depended on it in order to have fun. Honestly it is quite scary to
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When I saw on my syllabus that I had to attend an AA meeting‚ I was vey nervous‚ frightening and anxious. Walking through the door of my first AA meeting was‚ stressful and uncertain‚ since I did not know what to expect. Being an observator among total strangers‚ who‚ willing wasting their lives away by driking without any regards for their families and friends was not my idea of time well spend. There are hundreds of studies that had shown‚ alcohol have destructive short term and long term effects
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Visits to AA meetings I was quite apprehensive about going to a meeting‚ more so than I expected to be. I am not an alcoholic‚ and I was nervous about being invasive to those who are... I am involved in other support groups and I would feel violated if a student sat in one... especially if they participated in any way. I comforted myself with the fact that is acceptable to have visitors at open meetings... then I had to find open meetings. I was also worried about encountering really small
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I had Many reservations about doing this assignment. I initially felt I was inappropriate for me to attend a meeting‚ when I have never had a problem with addiction. I felt that going to this meeting would be intruding on their healing processes‚ almost as if I was using them as lab rats‚ to further my own education. However‚ my opinion of this changed after expressing these concerns to a friend who is a recovering addict. They told me there is no reason to feel awkward‚ or guilty about going and
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I was a little nervous attending one of these meetings because I didn’t know what to expect but only know from television shows and movies. What is the reality though? I imagined and painted a picture of what an AA meeting would be like. I pictured a room full of people that were obvious addicts‚ unkept appearances‚ offensive hygiene and at least one person smelling of alcohol while moving back and forth in the chair. As I entered the room‚ my perspective laughed at me and as I looked around
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I’ve been to hundreds of AA/NA meetings. In this essay I’ll talk about the three I went to for this class and I’ll incorporate some of the experiences I had in other meetings as well. There is no doubt that every meeting has a different feel to it. The location‚ people attending‚ and structure of the meetings have a large impact on the on how they are run. These factors‚ and others‚ played a big part in how I felt after leaving the meeting. When I was released from jail‚ the most important goal
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While attending the AA meeting‚ I felt as though I couldn’t help myself but feel very sad for the group while listening to some individuals overcome substance abuse addiction while others relapsed. My thoughts throughout the meeting was how I thought each one of them were courageous to share their stories and amazed on how similar some stories were. My impression on the leader who took leadership of that meeting was very sensitive and ran the meeting very diligently. The meeting opened up with the
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