Negative Imagery vs Cravings
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Negative Imagery vs Cravings
Do you use negative images whenever you get a craving?
Mine is the Komodo Dragon. Every time a beer add comes on TV or I think about drinking alcohol, the image of a Komodo Dragon snaps into my mind shortly after.
Why the Komodo Dragon? Because it perfectly represents, to me, what addiction is. A nine foot long, 350 pound Komodo can kill animals many times its size because it has over fifty species of virulent bacteria in its mouth. The prey gets blood poisoning, and the smell of impending death attracts more Komodo's. The prey gets eaten alive when it becomes too weak to flee or fight back.
I know that if I have one single drink, like a Komodo Dragon's bite, it will start the long, pathetic, painful descent into a premature, ugly death.
What's yours?
Murray
Mine is the Komodo Dragon. Every time a beer add comes on TV or I think about drinking alcohol, the image of a Komodo Dragon snaps into my mind shortly after.
Why the Komodo Dragon? Because it perfectly represents, to me, what addiction is. A nine foot long, 350 pound Komodo can kill animals many times its size because it has over fifty species of virulent bacteria in its mouth. The prey gets blood poisoning, and the smell of impending death attracts more Komodo's. The prey gets eaten alive when it becomes too weak to flee or fight back.
I know that if I have one single drink, like a Komodo Dragon's bite, it will start the long, pathetic, painful descent into a premature, ugly death.
What's yours?
Murray
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I have been using the image of me trying to sit still and watch my son's little league all-star game with a bunch of other parents while I am having trouble breathing and a case of the shakes so bad because of my withdrawal that I thought I was either having a heart attack or a stroke. I'm trying to act normal and watch my kid, and I can't sit still and show my support, and I'm scared that I'm going to pass out in front of everyone and embarrass my kid on his big day.
It might not seem like much, but it makes me feel sick everytime I think about it...and it makes me feel even worse being that it was only 12 days ago. That image it tattooed on my brain, and I hope it stays there forever.
It might not seem like much, but it makes me feel sick everytime I think about it...and it makes me feel even worse being that it was only 12 days ago. That image it tattooed on my brain, and I hope it stays there forever.
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Originally Posted by Supercrew 
I have been using the image of me trying to sit still and watch my son's little league all-star game with a bunch of other parents while I am having trouble breathing and a case of the shakes so bad because of my withdrawal that I thought I was either having a heart attack or a stroke. I'm trying to act normal and watch my kid, and I can't sit still and show my support, and I'm scared that I'm going to pass out in front of everyone and embarrass my kid on his big day.
It might not seem like much, but it makes me feel sick everytime I think about it...and it makes me feel even worse being that it was only 12 days ago. That image it tattooed on my brain, and I hope it stays there forever.
It might not seem like much, but it makes me feel sick everytime I think about it...and it makes me feel even worse being that it was only 12 days ago. That image it tattooed on my brain, and I hope it stays there forever.
That's a strong one!!
On the positive imagery side, it showed two things to me...you love your son very, very much, and you want to stop drinking so bad that you didn't use the game as an excuse to have some booze.
Give yourself a bunch of pats on the back!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Murray4x5
YIKES!
That's a strong one!!
On the positive imagery side, it showed two things to me...you love your son very, very much, and you want to stop drinking so bad that you didn't use the game as an excuse to have some booze.
Give yourself a bunch of pats on the back!!!!!!!
Murray
That's a strong one!!
On the positive imagery side, it showed two things to me...you love your son very, very much, and you want to stop drinking so bad that you didn't use the game as an excuse to have some booze.
Give yourself a bunch of pats on the back!!!!!!!
Murray
It's funny, because every bad thing that has ever happened to me throughout my life has been due to me drinking. Fights, jail, kicked off the team, kicked out of school, lost friendships, wrecked cars, infidelity, poor job performance, getting my teeth knocked out, pure stupidity, yet the strongest image was the fact that I felt like I was letting my son down. For some reason that image makes me cringe more than anything else....even my own mugshot.
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I remember that ugly liquor store that I was enslaved to before about 11 weeks ago. The memory is starting to blur a little, but I can still picture every inch of that place that I grew to loathe so much. Whenever I feel like drinking, I realize that it probably wouldn't be long 'til I'm back to being their trained monkey. That keeps me from drinking.
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