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Rad44 · 05-09-2009, 02:33 PM

Gravity. I think alcoholics are wired differently than other people in some respects and in others not. I think addiction is like learning to ride a bike. There is no way to un-learn it and turn back the clock to normal drinking days. Impossible. And God knows I've tried every conceivable way. My brain is permanently stuck at the last worst-case-scenario day I was drinking and couldn't stand it anymore. If I am sober for 30 years and choose to pick up a drink, it will put me right back to that day within 30 minutes. That's a hard wired brain condition that only addicted people have and non addicted people do not understand.

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Rad44 Guest Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Orlando Florida Posts: 222	Gravity. I think alcoholics are wired differently than other people in some respects and in others not. I think addiction is like learning to ride a bike. There is no way to un-learn it and turn back the clock to normal drinking days. Impossible. And God knows I've tried every conceivable way. My brain is permanently stuck at the last worst-case-scenario day I was drinking and couldn't stand it anymore. If I am sober for 30 years and choose to pick up a drink, it will put me right back to that day within 30 minutes. That's a hard wired brain condition that only addicted people have and non addicted people do not understand.