Raleigh ;Sounds like you've got a handle on this thing and are in a good place at least for now. It's going to get even better but watch out for the so called "pink cloud". That's when folks start to feel real good or at least so much better, feel that they're back in "control" and then when some opportunity comes feel that they can have "just one". Some counselors call the "pink cloud" the "flight into recovery". Problem is that the body, chemically and physically, hasn't completely recovered and if you're an alcoholic, the smallest amount of alcohol can set it off again, not maybe that very moment or even day, but soon you're likely to find yourself on the old slippery slope, downwards to where you were before, addicted once more. So watch you're back (your addiction is right behind you watching for an opening) and get into some kind of program for the long pull. True sobriety may take years. But it gets better and better
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