Originally Posted by
Peter G 
Insidious sack of crap.
BEST description of the beast/AV ever!
we can't (with respect and only opinion!) 'tame' the beast, we can only recognise when it tries to hijack our thinking, maybe repeat the Big Plan in your head, and go do something else.
as long as i tried to struggle with my beast/AV, treating it like an entity capable of reason, or at least something worthy of ANY interaction from myself (eg, arguing with it or trying to reason with it) i struggled and 'white knuckled' but once i accepted it as no more than a cold sore or other recurring biological fact, 99% of its power as 'dr beast' or whatever, by which 'it' could persuade me to drink against my better judgement by using images, concepts etc that supported drinking, all just evaporated.