My name is Rafael and I’m an alcoholic. I got sober in Berlin and have been living there for more than eight years. One of the reasons I chose this city was that it seemed to be socially acceptable to drink at all times and almost everywhere. I only got to enjoy that for a […]
Category: Young Persons
Finding the Fellowship I Craved in YPAA
My name is A.J. and I am an alcoholic. “Yes, I’m willing. But am I consigned to a life where I shall be stupid, boring and glum, like some righteous people I see?” When I came to AA at age 29, I had already lived my life as stupid, boring, glum, and self-righteous as an […]
Incomplete and Lonely
A newcomer remembers the first and last drunk before coming to A.A. I always felt incomplete and lonely. I had that hole deep inside of me and I could never really fully connect with anyone until I discovered alcohol. I started drinking when I was 18. I went to Paris where I walked […]
My First YPAA Experience
My name is Martin, and I’m an alcoholic. Alcohol did for me what I could not do for myself. I loved it for what it could make me feel or not feel, depending on the day. I’m not sure which I loved the most, four drinks that felt like someone undoing the highest button on […]
“Iggy Pop”?! — No, ICYPAA! My First YPAA Experience
My first experience with YPAA was in 2010 in New York City. I was 25 years old and only about four months sober. In early summer of that year I traveled to NYC to visit a friend. Before that trip, I had only attended small meetings in Southeastern and Central Ohio where I grew up […]
