Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:26 am
This topic has been mentioned briefly in some threads here and there, but I thought I’d start its own post. Although most of us would agree that it’s no one’s business to judge another person’s recovery and how "sick" they are, it seems people continue to do just that. I especially find this odd because this is an online forum and no one really knows anyone else. How could anyone here know anyone else well enough to know what they were like pre-addiction and during their addiction; what work they needed to do in their life as well as what work they have accomplished. In other words, these judgments are being made based solely on limited replies on specific subjects.
Doesn’t NA/AA even say to worry about one’s own recovery and not anyone else’s? I wanted to discuss this because, like I said, this seems to happen more often than not and I’m guessing I’m not the only one to notice this and to find it rather judgmental.
So am I the only one to notice this? What do you think of people discussing or judging another’s recovery? This forum is for support, not for us to use yardsticks to measure ourselves against another person. What’s the point of that anyway?
