Originally Posted by
freshstart57 
... Thoughts about alcohol aren't AV unless they make me uncomfortable in the light of my BP. It is my BP that pushes them over the fence into AV land where I can recognize them.
What a great way to put it!
I suppose the BP works kind of like a lie detector for our thoughts around alcohol. If a thought is incongruous with the BP - and what is mental discomfort, if not holding simultaneous incompatible thoughts - then it's fallacious and to be ignored.
I guess I'm finding that lately I don't even have to hold thoughts about drinking up to the light of my BP. They are so transparently false that just noticing the lies seems to chase them away. Perhaps if a lie gets ignored enough, it loses any power to convince that it once held.
Of course, this new feeling may just be my frontal lobes starting to recover some function.
