ESH: Greg (Alcoholic and Bi-Polar)

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Greg from the Primetime group tells his story in July of 2014 as an alcoholic and as someone diagnosed as Bi-Polar. At the time of this speak he was 22 months sober he has been in and out of AA for 28 years he has up to 12 years of continuous sobriety. There are also some follow up speakers at the end of the meeting. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:21.7	basket.
0:22.7	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:25.7	All right, my name's Greg and I'll call it.
0:29.7	I'm also a tech nerd.
0:31.7	I've been most of my life, and I just took my pulse right before this, and it's elevated
0:36.8	about 20 beats per minute in my family.
0:42.9	So let me start off with the preposter.
0:46.1	The purpose of the peninsula, a prime time meeting is to talk about the reason to come
0:49.8	to alcoholics anonymous.
0:51.4	To expose alcoholics anonymous, not just as a word, but as a living mind-powered disease.
0:57.2	How the disease appears and functions in our lives today in order to deepen our awareness
1:02.2	of what we are up against.
1:04.1	Alcoholism is called ism because it is alive and functioning and it needs to be treated.
1:10.6	We discuss here strictly the disease that manifests in each of our own lives, the way our behavior
1:15.9	is this day, the way we react or look at people, places, and things.
1:20.8	We do not talk about our drunk-alogues and yesterday's problems or blaming other people.
1:26.0	We talk only about looking inwardly, describing how self-haves in the, that's hard, how self-haves
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