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AA works for more than 25 million people worldwide for almost a century. But he.. if it’s not for you, it’s not for you and you’re free to choose whatever feels good for you to recover from addiction. My opinion is to share your way of recovery by how you did and do it instead of constanty complain about your experience with AA and what’s so bad about it in your perspective. I do not attend meetings anymore for years and years. But the fundament i build thanks to AA is still intact. It made me a better person for life! The last 5 years i’m looking for deeper connection on a spiritual level. I have no reason to complain SO MUCH about what’s not good about AA. And although i don’t attend any meetings anymore for the last 7 years, it did saved my life! If you have to make a video about why AA is not good for you, and complain so much about it, you must have serious issues. Just focus on your recovery, with or without AA. Everyone is free to choose.

If your form of sobriety is so good, why are you still so angry about something that you tried twice, 15 years ago? Do you not have anything better to do with all the spare time you have while not in meetings?

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AA doesn’t charge a penny. We give books to new people. Is your book free? Cult? AA has no leaders. AA says take it or leave it. AA wants members to repair relationships, not isolate from family. AA acknowledges and encourages people to try other methods if they think AA is not for them. They usually come back when those other programs don’t work. AA works for anyone who puts half as much effort into it as they did trying to control their drinking. Attending two meetings is statistically insignificant.

Alot of people can't afford PASSAGES ??????

IF AA DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU , GO SOMEWHERE ELSE !!!!

PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER TRIED AA LOVE TO BASH AA !!!!!!!! IT WORKS FOR ME BEEN SOBER 6 YEARS !!!!!!

The seminars just get people high. It takes a lot more than that to make changes.

Reasons AA does not work: 1) sick people trying to make other sick people better, it doesn't work. 2) unqualified people who "sponsor" people often causing more harm than good. 3) the long term recovery rate is appalling. 4) If you are female you WILL be preyed upon and nobody will do anything about it. 5) Courts require many people to attend, you will be surrounded by criminals including sex offenders. THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES!!! Do yur research.

Like they say in AA you need but are not ready or don’t want it. I been in AA ( this time. Not first time winner) 23 years now I’m still recovering not recovered enjoy your day Vincent G

Why has tom hanks said its one of the most amazing things to have happend in the 20th century

Lmao a everyone in the comments defending AA yet i searched youtube for "AA is bullshit" and this video popped up, why are yall watching this video if your so sure AA is god lol. Seems like u r not so sure are u. Its simple. Want to b sober than dont do drugs

The AA big big does say you can recover. Meetings have people that say recovering and others that say recovered. I don't do many meetings maybe 1 or 2 a month and I'm sober and recovered for nearly 10 years and I'm active in the community. Like everything you get out what you put in

I am very happy for your sobriety. Good for you. What is concerning is your judgement of all AA based on going to two meetings, as everyone knows that all meetings are not the same. And, it's not for everyone, but it is there for the ones who have tried everything else, to no avail.

AA is just one of a myriad of approaches to quitting drinking, so why is it that those who fail and go back to drinking blame AA for their personal failures? I don't know. All I know is that my battel with alcohol ended over 43 years ago when I surrendered and admitted that I was a alcoholic and did somethIng it by going to a AA meeting and starting to work the program to the best of my ability. Whatever floats your boat and works for you is fine with me. I don't blame anyone or anything else for my personal failures. So if blaming others for your personal failures is what works for you then by all means go ahead. I wish you well and best of luck on the remainder of your journey. It took me seven years of in and out of the rooms of AA to finally figure out that if I wanted the program to work then I was the one who needed to put in the work and that is what I did and the results speak for itself. The AA program works only if you work it. Take care and God bless.

AA/NA are groups of sick people keeping each other sick. And don't get me started on the rampant predatory behavior that is unchecked. There are options. Try something else.

Wait. The fanatic religious cult. Is... Not? Effective.

I feel that if you need to go to a meeting every night and your whole life revolves around staying away from bad influences then the DOC is still running your life.

More people quit on their own that’s a statistical fact. But they weren’t the real alcoholics lol okay my dad has 20 years and he’s a great person today. Nothing like the guy I grew up with, no sober birthday date no nothing he doesn’t even think much of it anymore. This was a guy that quit in his 60s, and was literally a stage five alcoholic. The guy couldn’t even go to the bathroom and constantly fell down. 24 everyday for years. Glad to have him as a powerful example in my life.

This was one of the biggest load of rubbish I ever heard or seen on You Tube! This could endanger people's lives.

I don’t go to AA or NA anymore, but I am grateful for all that it did for me. I have my reasons for going along in my current journey, and am very happy. I don’t want to go to meetings three times per week, but each to their own.

I went to AA for almost 2 years. I never encountered any of the cult mentality described in this video. AA is a social fellowship. Only step 1 is really very important. I quit drinking after 46 years of whiskey and 52 years of pot smoking. AA is not a cult.

AA is not a magical effortless cure. AA is a fellowship of like minded people enjoying each other's company and conversation

AA cant help people who are not willing to show a bit of effort or self control. Aa

Clever writing: “rereading the Big Book and working the twelve steps.”

Charles Hurst Reinvention - Physical Therapist turned author of fiction, and people believe this guy???

His books might be good but who writes them?

“I Am Not Your Guru”. What then? It is apparent that he has no other training or knowledge other than running his mouth to permanent hoarseness.

That music at the start is ridiculously loud and the levels are all out of proportion with the rest of the video!

Idk - I haven’t had a routine life and I still feel like time flies

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i hate AA. I had one Sponsor at my lowest, most vulnerable time of need! She announced if I dnt do her 12steps, I'm not doing the program hard enough! BS, I now drop in +say I'm still alive, still sober, never do 12 steps, +hate co-dependency with a moron who parrots a tonne of vindictive BS! i sobered up, +reprogrammed, +survived!

Hi charlie I highly recommend you listen to bill finley’s 7 part AA big book discussion from Lorain Ohio, he delves deep into the big book what it all means and the history behind AA and its origins. The sole purpose of the book big to enable a person to find a power greater than themselves . If you’ve found an Alternqte path to recovery god bless you ! You’ll never need treatment or detox again

1:00 the big book talks about people like you, It says you weren’t as seriously alcoholic as the founders were! Some ppl don’t need 12 steps some day, there’s a reason AA’s 12 steps has been copied, before AA behavior modification and psychology was tried with Rolan hazard and Carl young, it didn’t work. AA was born from the Oxford movement and Christianity ✝️

Mr. "Reinvention", Charles Hurst, is trying to convince the world that based on him attending a few AA meetings, that it doesn't work and hurts people. With that kind of vast experience, who wouldn't believe him? Mr. Hurst is the very definition of "contempt prior to investigation"! A handful of AA meetings, Mr. Hurst? I suppose you believe that after four of five flying lessons, you're now a professional pilot? You "went to a couple different places"? Exactly how many meetings did that entail? Let's start with this...nobody goes to AA in the beginning, because they're on a winning streak, so why were you there? To argue? So you stopped going after how many meetings?...and gained so much wisdom, that you're going to save the alcoholic world from themselves, and AA? Geezus dude, you have ZERO credibility!

Keep in mind folks that Charles Hurst has very little to no ACTUAL EXPERIENCE in AA. He is spewing nonsense, based on some resentment he has towards the majority of people who are seeking to be a better version of themselves. "Oh, the horror of it all"! Also keep in mind that there are people in recovery, representing every occupation known to mankind. You know, like Healthcare, Commercial Aviation, Military, Legal, Government, Education, Law Enforcement, Retail, Construction, etc, etc. In fact, AA can be found in 180 countries, and translated into roughly 100 languages. By his own admission, his only agenda is to "pull as many people away from AA as possible", again based on zippo experience. Not exactly the "Pied Piper" here.

AA clearly doesn't work for you, but why do you feel the need to go around trying to convince everyone that they should share your beliefs?

Before you critique it, I suggest you do a wee bit more research than attend a couple meetings. If you had read any actual original AA literature you would have found, in the forward to the first edition of the "Big Book" that it says, "We are more 100 men and women who have RECOVERED from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body". The word recovered is used multiple times in the Big Book. Yes, you can go into far too many meetings today as hear what you heard. You'll be forever sick, always in some phase of recovery, just one drink away from disaster. That jargon is what has leaked out of treatment centers over the decades. It's not traditional AA belief. Yes, meetings are not perfect nor are they for everyone. It also states in our original literature that "we have no corner on this market and wish the best for those that have found another way". If AA has made any mistake over the years, I would say the biggest one is trying to be all things to all people. We're not that. I have 39 years of continuous sobriety and have been active in AA, sometimes more, some less, for that entire period. Why do I still go? Because somebody must be there to tell the newcomer that they can indeed recover from this, never drink again, and live a happy and productive life. It was given freely to me, and it is an obligation that I do the same. We're not perfect, never claimed to be, have plenty of bullshit in our game. In essence we are a reflection of our screwed-up society, but for some people it works. The statistics of recovery are horrible. That only demonstrates just how insidious this affliction is once it gets it's hooks into you. You found another way. Good for you. You can share that other way without bad mouthing what you clearly don't fully understand. I suggest you try that approach, and you may be able to help many people.

I think the point of this video is supposed to enlighten the power of the self without the assistance of a program. I've been to AA and what I've observed is they are creating a new addictive relationship with their program. So you don't drink because you are now addicted to the groups and the program. It's a strange mental conditioning/brainwashing that happens

All of these AA "debunking" videos either come across as smart assy guys such as yourself shitting on something to that genuinely helps people, or like when someone can't be happy for someone getting well.

Time has proven Bill Wilson right, lsd can help with alcoholism.

My wife is 40 years sobor with aa, i tell her aa might have been there, but she did it, not god or twelve steps but her own inner strength. What aa does do is let you know you are not alone. But it is a bit cultish.

I think it depends on whether your truly at rock bottom. For some people they have nothing else. No friends or family left to support their healing journey.,For them AA takes on that roll. GRATZ to you for being able to go cold turkey, the success rate of that is lower then having AA help.

The AA program works(31 )years for me, but we never said we have cornered the market on staying sober

Meetings are variable in content and efficacy for sur

I used to be addicted to AA, it was what I slept, ate and lived. It did help in its own way. It’s just full of shitty people mostly who are really out for themselves. If you truly connect and build a king lasting friendship with ONE person for life, that’s a win. It doesn’t mean you have to keep subjecting yourself to the BS AA promotes and is full of. Way too many crappy ppl for me. Get sober on your own is my advice. Stay away from drama.

To be honest, AA stands for Assholes Aninymous wrapped with cute quotes and big egos. Being sober IS rad, no doubt! Learning about yourself and making amends IS sweet! Just avoid the meetings and people who suck! AA is truly full of them. Sad, really.

I left AA but learned a lot and am sober. Wayyyyy too much drama and bs. Huge egos and too many sickos in that program. No thx!

I recall reading that AA works for about 5% of the people who attend (based on what studies, I don't know) - these 5% are those who really need someone or something external to help them direct their lives. For most other people, it's inherently disempowering and the overt religiosity of it can be very off-putting.

Bro did not just call Joe Rogan a philospopher. 😂