Old 01-18-2012, 01:47 PM
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harry101
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Originally Posted by FT View Post
If you still need "convincing" that you should quit drugs/alcohol, maybe you really don't want to stop. Stopping for any reason other than you WANT to be a non-drinker and non-drug-user is going to fail. I don't think you are there yet.
But ambivalence is the essence of addiction. The rational part of us wants to quit because of the negatives effects, yet a more primal part of us wants to continue getting high.

The fact that Harambulus is on this forum and reading the RR book would indicate that he/she does genuinely want to stop and is only using against his/her better judgement.
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