Is it possible to still have withdrawals 67 days in?

One of the messages I’ve been taught in AA is that I should “take from it what works for me, and be free to leave the rest.” I draw a lot of positivity from spiritual elements and the fellowship, yet feel we know a bit more about brain chemistry right now than they did in era of Dr Bob. This thread was about the normality of the effects on the brain of the OP’s weeks-after alcohol cessation: in my view contemporary science offers far more helpful guidance than much of the other feedback he was given. My language sought to italicize that.

I stand by the phrase science-less dogma. Relative to now, the science of AA is the height of an anthill. And as for dogma, I feel like the catholic church might be a more progressive organization. The argument of “Hey don’t speak counter to it because it’s worked in the past” is, in an era based on progressively and adaptability, going to lock our organization in past it will be left behind in. If there is an AA analogue for “heretic” I’m sure many in this thread would label me it. That one guy who was coming at me so hard was certainty ready to dechurch me.

That I was (despite a recent relapse which I was also harangued for) able to calmly explain myself to him against continued angry tirade shows me that there must at least be some validity to my interpretation of AA’s guidance. Nothing I’ve experienced in this subreddit has yet dissuaded me from it.

Please do not attempt to silence or bowdlerize calm, reasoned dissent. You may not agree with the reasoning, but I believe I have a right to interpretations based on my own education and my own experience, and the right to express myself using my own words.

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