Originally Posted by RR p.174

If you do drink in violation of your Big Plan, Mr Beast, Esq., will make a big deal of it. It will pound the gavel of judgement and tell you that you are incapable of keeping your word and that your plan for perfect abstinence is unrealistic. From your viewpoint, the violation is also a significant event, not one to dismiss casually. You drank in violation of a covenant you made when you were using your best intelligence and when you could clearly remember the pain and suffering caused by your drinking. But that is all you have done. You are not out of control, because no one but the neocortical you decided to drink and no one but you used your voluntary muscles to pick it up and swallow it. Having a lapse, which means you have had one drinking episode, does not mean that you are a stupid person, or that you have crossed over the line into a mysterious forbidden zone in which you suddenly become powerless to stop or less responsible for your actions and decisions. It does mean that your Addictive Voice, the Beast, temporarily gained control of one or more of your mental faculties. You can recognize the Beast building a case against you, focusing on your fallibility, predicting you will drink more and more, or at least now and then. Prepare your defense by doing a lapse reconstruction.