I have to be honest, they took a long time to go away for me.
They got easier and easier to deal with though
I did learn, pretty quickly, that having the thoughts and acting on them
were two different things.
nobody would find out that I would drink.
Thats not the issue tho. YOU would know.
It doesn't make it less tragic that noone else would know...it makes it more tragic.
Whatever support you have, use it
If you think you need more there a range of face to face recovery approaches that could help?
There are a lot of cravings strategies too - I particularly recommend urge surfing for realising that we can think it., but we don't need to act on it
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-cravings.html
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