Originally Posted by
sainos 
If I had never drank in my life, and did something that I knew to be the wrong thing to do I would feel guilty, that's what guilt is! And I wouldn't dream of thinking of doing the same thing that made me feel guilt in the first place, to relieve that guilt!
Bingo! Bravo!
I was stuck in this particular AV Möbius strip for too long. It would chime in with "You shouldn't have to feel guilty about all that time you wasted drinking, or all those problems from drinking. You need some drinks to cope with that guilt."
It still tries the old game sometimes.