Originally Posted by
IAmAbstinent 
This post kind of discourages me from contributing in this thread now, rather keeping it a 'private matter' as Trimpey states.
You will quickly realize, if you haven't already, that in our society, practically no one believes in your ability to quit for good, and very few people expect you to actually do so. Some people, notably others with an active
Beastly side, will secretly want you to drink/use again, and may even encourage you to do so. In order to get a handle on this, you will have to recognize the Addictive Voice not only in your own thinking, but also in the society around you.
AVRT will allow you do just that, though, and soon enough, you won't get discouraged from what anyone else says. It is often helpful to consider yourself the first and only person in history to ever quit an addiction. By looking at it this way, what others say or do will have little bearing on what you do. Something to ponder: would you suddenly be
"in relapse" if anyone else here, or even Jack Trimpey, got drunk again?
