Originally Posted by
TigerLili 
Is anyone really ever ready to quit? If it was just a matter of being ready and then quitting, would we be alcoholics?
I want to quit more than I want to drink but the compulsion and obsession makes me batcrap crazy. I drink even though I don't want to. It's like being possessed. I am thinking of looking into a detox. I've never done detox or rehab. Maybe it will help.
I drank myself to one leg in the grave status -the other choice was death, so that's not really a choice.
Even then, I still had to use my 'higher brain' and tell the primal bits of my psyche that weren't ready or too scared to quit that it was over and they needed to get into step.
For smarter folks than me, ones who got off the crazy train before the wreck, I think this proverb fits
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