Just been watching Kevin O'Hara on you tube. He has a video with a suggestion on how to remember how you felt in the first days you stopped drinking after you had been stopped for a while, because forgetting the after effects of drinking seems to be so easy. It was to make a video of yourself explaining how you feel.
I have just done this. I played it back and the images seem to me to be more powerful than writing how you feel. It was uncomfortable to watch back.
After almost a month of fairly non stop drinking 750ml of spirits a day, it shows badly in this video. My eyes are dead, my skin is bad, I look like death warmed up and sound like it. I also videoed the state of my flat.
If I ever, ever, think that drinking is a good idea again, I'm hoping this will bring back to me, why it isn't