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Ep 28 Identity Manipulation + Self Diagnosis in AA
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What if you weren’t an “alcoholic” after all?
In this episode, we dive deep into two of AA’s most insidious high-control tactics:
🔹 Identity manipulation
🔹 Self-diagnosis under pressure
We unpack:
- How AA gets you to adopt the “alcoholic” label when you’re at your most vulnerable
- Why that label isn’t a medical diagnosis (and never has been)
- The harm that comes from mistaking neurodivergence, trauma, or mental health struggles as “alcoholism”
- How many folks only discovered their ADHD, autism, or bipolar II after leaving AA—and how life got so much better with real support
- The difference between addiction recovery and discovering who you really are
If you’ve ever felt gaslit by AA’s one-size-fits-all “solution,” this episode is for you.
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You don’t need to spend your whole life fixing what was never broken.
Your wiring isn’t a defect.
You are not a walking diagnosis.
Let’s stop anchoring to our past—and start living our truth.
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