It helps for me to recognize that flush of excitement as my addict brain's learned response to the prospect of having the substance. I know this may not work for some people, but when I take away the emotionality of it and see it clinically, I then become the higher consciousness or observer from afar... I see it for what it is. A delusion. Nothing more. It's not salvation. My excitement is a maladaptive response, nothing more.
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