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Patient [raising Arm above his Head]: 'Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do that'.
Doctor: 'OK, so don't do that'.
An ancient Henny Youngman Joke.
It took me a ridiculous length of time to break that maladjusted Alcoholic 'Coping' Cycle. Once broken, I find there's no chance [for me] of going back to it. It was simply too great an effort, and too great a victory. With regard to The Ego, this victory is also too great a contributor to my Serenity. I can now set that battle fully aside to a place of neutrality where it merits no further attention, and generates no more angst.