Mental Health and Taboo topics in OUR community

[Ideal08]

Do we have any on GC? If so, do you feel comfortable talking/sharing your experiences and how they've shaped the person that you are today? If you don't feel comfortable posting to the thread, please PM me.

ETA:

Here are some of my questions:

Have you ever been to an Al-Anon meeting? How long did you contemplate it before actually going? Did you feel comfortable? Could you relate?

What made you realize that you were codependent?

Have you read any books on the topic? If so, which ones?

Did you seek therapy?

Are the alcoholics still in your life? How do you deal with them as adults? Do you have a new family of your own? How does it affect relationships with your new family?

How do you think it affects your non-romantic relationships?

As you can see, I'm full of questions. Like I said, I TOTALLY understand if this is not something you want to talk about on a message board. Trust me when I say that it was hard for me to even come to terms with any of this, let alone post it on here. But y'all know y'all are kind of like my Online Help Group (I'm thinking of Fight club right now). I needed to come to GC with these questions, because I realize that things tend to affect Black people differently; however, I didn't find any books that directly related to Black people. I did buy a few books, but I'll share that later.