Originally Posted by
Nonsensical 
Five paragraphs and not one mention of the Beast. Is it not real to you? Mine is so real I should be allowed to claim that trouble-maker as a dependant on my income taxes.
Rational Recovery explained to me EXACTLY why I feel a compulsion to drink. Once that mystery was over everything else just started falling into place.
There is nothing so special about the Beast that requires it to be the topic of constant conversation when practicing AVRT.
The so-called 'trouble-maker's' desire is completely healthy and normal, although it has an maladaptive appetite for alcohol. As for AV, this is simply our own thoughts, feelings, images, whatever else identified and isolated by our BP which suggests future drinking. Nothing there remarkable either. AV is a normal experience.