yeah, I don't do that whole extra step of, "It's the AV." I know that extra step is useful to some people.
I just don't spend time romanticizing, recalling, wishing, worrying, remembering, FEARING, any of that. It's a stupid brain glitch and it's annoying, nothing more. So I just move on to something else. Change the channel. Turn the page, look the other way, it's just a biological pathway that was reinforced over and over for years. I truly don't think the thoughts will ever go completely away and they will always be annoying. That's okay, small price to pay in the scheme of things. Every time it comes up it gives me another opportunity to make the right decision and to enforce my true self.
The self that was born not needing alcohol.