My last real full blown encounter with the AV was like a scene from The Exorcist.
I am not joking. (OK - minus the pea soup.)
It was exhausting....and it finally clicked something for me in my sobriety, that it's the really tough, hard fights, that have the power to cement our sobriety - that we miss out on if we crumble and drink.
Now, I'm no masochist....but, boy, I took myself out and fought that beast hard the last time and I told that sonofabirch he wasn't getting his dirty rotten hands on me this time.