Mental Health: 12 step AA and Eating Disorder

12 STEP/ RECOVERY PROGRAM REFLECTIONAttend one OPEN 12 Step/ Recovery Program meeting. Write a paper to reflect on the Answer the following questions for both meeting that I attended are provided. Each are about half a page (paragraph A: AA) (Paragraph B: EATING DISORDER). Textbook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RsyVpTp-QBs9AwlYdCIQaneu_Aj-xA_0/view?usp=sharingfollowing:Type of meeting: _____NA, AA, OA, EO,etc.ocation: Arlington DateTime: 1. Briefly outline a 12-step program. Which steps were mentioned in the meeting? What steps were participants working on? 2. Briefly describe the level of participation of each member. Describe the group dynamics.3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the groups leader.4. What did you learn by attending the meeting.-AA: American Addiction Center Wednesday 8/5/20 4PM PST/ 7PM EST Jake Arthur: https://americanaddictioncenters.org/virtual-meetingsSummary:AA meeting: They start with the serenity prayer acknowledge any new members and they open the Open the floor to share for 3 to 5 minutes then they share from the big buck on the topic this time was about self-pity Alex McMillan was running the group instead of the Jake guy. Sophie spoke she’s 120 days sober she speaks about the step process on the especially for her struggle with 4, 5, 6,7. She said it’s been a struggle to finally understand why she makes the decision she makes and how she views things on for own self-pity she makes a gratitude list on her fear her anger and if she Evers needs someone she should always be open to have someone to call.The next once the floor was open was Rihanna she’s been sober for 17 months and she She spoke on gratitude that it’s taking her a while in the state am I sound weird but she’s grateful for the shit she put people through because that’s what has gotten her to where she’s at today and in a path to forgiveness she’s grateful to be alive that her sanity is returning and then she’s finally being serious in her life-Eating disorder meeting attended: 8/7/20 Friday 12PM PST Accountability vs self-blame: https://www.alsana.com/free-online-support-group/Summary: In the alsana support group they start by sharing feelings of guilt and shame. Anonymous shares her feelings about how when she was in treatment it felt like they wanted her to be perfect and making it seem like it was so easy to eat three meals in a day but in her head it was extremely difficult and made her feel like a failure and that’s when she started to mask her pain by cutting herself, she explained that she needed to start working on taking the steps the counselor asked her if she knew any triggers she had and her her trigger was a scale. Another patient was asking for help on speaking about her eating disorder to her family because she feels like they don’t understand that she can’t just eat. The counselor acknowledged her that it is difficult because of her having to be vulnerable but she needs to try to find what her safe place is and be brave if this is something that is bothering her within. Patient explains that she has started talking to a counselor. So the counselor running the meeting explain to her that she could probably ask the counselor if she could do an over the phone session with her and her family so she could help guide her and provide support. Another member offered the previous member some support she explained that this is her first time of the eating disorder meeting but she’s previously had multiple AA meetings she’s started being inpatient and 15 years old For alcohol she states that sometimes we don’t see that we are the ones that caused the block for families. Like in her case her ex want to speak about her eating disorder but never felt safe to bring it up ask explained he needed her to tell him what were his boundaries and where and what she needed help with. So the member offers open communication that she never spoke up and became resentful that they didn’t want to say anything to help her but reality she wasn’t seeing what she needed.