Lies My Addictive Voice (AV) Tells Me
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Originally Posted by freshstart57 
My AV added a few dandies:
*You can't quit drinking, who are you kidding. And if you could, you certainly can't do it know.
*You can't quit drinking, who are you kidding. And if you could, you certainly can't do it know.
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Location: Upstate NY
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"You only have really bad episodes when you abstained for a few nights and then binge, so you are better off just drinking every night and keeping your tolerance high."
"Yeah, no way are you quitting when your next door neighbor is your drinking buddy." This one literally kept me drinking for a couple more years. Turns out my neighbor really slowed it down when I quit.
"Wine is good for you." Probably not 10-12 glasses every night in a 3 hour span.
"Yeah, no way are you quitting when your next door neighbor is your drinking buddy." This one literally kept me drinking for a couple more years. Turns out my neighbor really slowed it down when I quit.
"Wine is good for you." Probably not 10-12 glasses every night in a 3 hour span.
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Originally Posted by freshstart57
Horatio, it helped me to understand that these thoughts are a result of becoming addicted to alcohol. Normies don't get them, just us. When I unpacked that thought, it became clear that these thoughts were designed to keep me drinking because my brain believed that it needed alcohol to survive. It had become some sort of bizarro survival drive.
I've always been 99% sure that these thoughts are a direct consequence of being addicted to alcohol, because I never had them even once before I started drinking.
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Originally Posted by Linz805
"Were you really that bad? Maybe you overreacted."
If I've heard this AV once, I've heard it a thousand times, it's actually laughable at how little imagination my AV has these days.
Catch and Release
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Originally Posted by Nonsensical
This time will be different.
Yep - this time, I will control my drinking and only have 2....sure. And maybe this time, you might even do just that, and that sneaky lying bastard AV will then twist that one time and whisper...see, you can drink normally and off you go chasing "normal" right into the gutter.
A Smart Bug is a Sober Bug!
Join Date: Jul 2013
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Bug, drinking instead of eating keeps you thin and you don't have to feel guilty about it because it goes right through you and you dont have to purge like you do with a cheeseburger. And popping Xanax will take away all the moodiness from starving. - signed your friends in LA LA land.
I don't have only one AV, I hAve a trifecta. I've got Larry (booze, 90+ days), Curly (benzos, 90+ days) and Moe (bulimia, 4+ years). I am slaying them [enter naughty word here].
I don't have only one AV, I hAve a trifecta. I've got Larry (booze, 90+ days), Curly (benzos, 90+ days) and Moe (bulimia, 4+ years). I am slaying them [enter naughty word here].
A Smart Bug is a Sober Bug!
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Originally Posted by Avaslov
What is the point? Life is meaningless.
Giving up is NOT an option.
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^^^ Yes, I did feel that way at times. But really, me feeling that way was almost certainly CAUSED by the alcohol, not the other way around. Once I stopped drinking, life didn't seem meaningless anymore.
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"You actually were doing a really good job moderating this last time through, it's only because of freakish events on that horrific day that you had to quit again".
Lies, lies, lies. Although the truth is that freakish things occurred if I had never started drinking again then the event itself would have never happened.
Lies, lies, lies. Although the truth is that freakish things occurred if I had never started drinking again then the event itself would have never happened.
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People like you better when you've had a drink
You're more creative when you have a drink
You've been sober a week and it doesn't feel better yet, so it's obviously not hoping to work, you might as well have a drink.
It's sunny - you've got to have a drink to enjoy it
It's snowy - you've got to have a drink to enjoy it
It's raining- you might as well have a drink
It's Monday - you need a drink
God doesn't love you - a drink will make you feel better
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You're more creative when you have a drink
You've been sober a week and it doesn't feel better yet, so it's obviously not hoping to work, you might as well have a drink.
It's sunny - you've got to have a drink to enjoy it
It's snowy - you've got to have a drink to enjoy it
It's raining- you might as well have a drink
It's Monday - you need a drink
God doesn't love you - a drink will make you feel better
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