Alcoholics Anonymous is a wonderful organization that has lifted thousands of people from lives ruined by addiction into healthy sobriety. Still, I have a beef with them. That’s their prejudice against having a good, oldfashioned Pity Party. For those of you lucky enough to have never thrown one, a pity party is when you mope around feeling sorry for yourself and blaming everyone else, even dumb luck, for your woes.
Now why would I, a mental health professional, stand up in favor of this (arguably) unhealthy activity? Because sometimes it’s just what the doctor ordered! It has to do with how we view and deal with our emotions, a counselor’s stock and trade.
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