Originally Posted by
AprilMay1895 
Well, coupled with a booze-damaged brain and the cynicism I've developed about recovery methods when I base them on my experience with **, I've managed to turn everything I read into rocket science. Rather than be open minded and accepting, I get overly cautious and think "What lies are they trying to make believe here?"
April,
By all means trust your instincts. You don't need to be "open minded" and accepting. If something really doesn't make sense to you, then don't attempt to believe it. Part of the mythology of recovery is that quitting an addiction is an extremely difficult and complicated undertaking, a life-long struggle against the inevitable; a maze filled with land-mines. This isn't the case, and AVRT is just an attempt to simplify things, cut through the fog, and untangle the web, so to speak.