Rage in Recovery
Rage in Recovery
Although the standard model of the so called Addictive Voice (AV), often referred to as the “Beast”, is said to reside in the amygdala, adjacent to the hippocampus , in the lower part of the brain, nearer the spine than the cerebral cortex, recent research has indicated that the brain assembles data from a multiplicity of locations. See, e.g., C. Zimmer, Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions (N.Y. Times July 20, 2016). For example, memories are not retrieved from a single site, like a book from a library shelf, but each time are assembled from numerous parts of the brain. With age the assembly process grows slower and the end result may gradually change.
For alcoholics in recovery it seems unimportant where the AV is “located”. Its importance consists in what it is and what it does.
Consider depression and rage. Freud suggested that depression results from anger or rage turned inward. A son, angry at his father for believed to be excessive attentions to his mother, or angry at his mother for her excessive attentions to her daughter, may turn that rage inward and become depressed, saying “It’s all because I’m no good. I’m a horrible person”.
Much of Freud has now been discredited. Depression is usually attributed to brain chemical deficiencies, like serotonin. Uptake inhibitors increase the serotonin level and cognitive therapy is administered along with that.
All well and good for alcoholics, provided that they don’t drink, for alcohol is a depressant and not only interferes with the effectiveness of the prescriptions but increases the depression, accentuates the rage.
This feeds and nourishes the AV, which, assuming more and more control, screams, “spoon banging” like a baby, “I want what I want when I want it and I want it now!”
With denial, rage feeds on itself and in a vain attempt to escape the alcoholic increases the intake, lengthening and deepening a binge or making a transition to subsistence drinking, where alcohol is used just to “feel normal” and avoid the horrors of withdrawal. The clock keeps ticking and the illness progresses. The slope becomes steeper and more slippery.
In recovery, depression is normal. I found that the best thing was to rely on the doctor, other recovering alcoholics with more experience than I had and, most of all, not to drink.
W.
For alcoholics in recovery it seems unimportant where the AV is “located”. Its importance consists in what it is and what it does.
Consider depression and rage. Freud suggested that depression results from anger or rage turned inward. A son, angry at his father for believed to be excessive attentions to his mother, or angry at his mother for her excessive attentions to her daughter, may turn that rage inward and become depressed, saying “It’s all because I’m no good. I’m a horrible person”.
Much of Freud has now been discredited. Depression is usually attributed to brain chemical deficiencies, like serotonin. Uptake inhibitors increase the serotonin level and cognitive therapy is administered along with that.
All well and good for alcoholics, provided that they don’t drink, for alcohol is a depressant and not only interferes with the effectiveness of the prescriptions but increases the depression, accentuates the rage.
This feeds and nourishes the AV, which, assuming more and more control, screams, “spoon banging” like a baby, “I want what I want when I want it and I want it now!”
With denial, rage feeds on itself and in a vain attempt to escape the alcoholic increases the intake, lengthening and deepening a binge or making a transition to subsistence drinking, where alcohol is used just to “feel normal” and avoid the horrors of withdrawal. The clock keeps ticking and the illness progresses. The slope becomes steeper and more slippery.
In recovery, depression is normal. I found that the best thing was to rely on the doctor, other recovering alcoholics with more experience than I had and, most of all, not to drink.
W.
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Although the standard model of the so called Addictive Voice (AV), often referred to as the “Beast”, is said to reside in the amygdala, adjacent to the hippocampus , in the lower part of the brain, nearer the spine than the cerebral cortex, recent research has indicated that the brain assembles data from a multiplicity of locations. See, e.g., C. Zimmer, Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions (N.Y. Times July 20, 2016). For example, memories are not retrieved from a single site, like a book from a library shelf, but each time are assembled from numerous parts of the brain. With age the assembly process grows slower and the end result may gradually change.
For alcoholics in recovery it seems unimportant where the AV is “located”. Its importance consists in what it is and what it does.
Consider depression and rage. Freud suggested that depression results from anger or rage turned inward. A son, angry at his father for believed to be excessive attentions to his mother, or angry at his mother for her excessive attentions to her daughter, may turn that rage inward and become depressed, saying “It’s all because I’m no good. I’m a horrible person”.
Much of Freud has now been discredited. Depression is usually attributed to brain chemical deficiencies, like serotonin. Uptake inhibitors increase the serotonin level and cognitive therapy is administered along with that.
All well and good for alcoholics, provided that they don’t drink, for alcohol is a depressant and not only interferes with the effectiveness of the prescriptions but increases the depression, accentuates the rage.
This feeds and nourishes the AV, which, assuming more and more control, screams, “spoon banging” like a baby, “I want what I want when I want it and I want it now!”
With denial, rage feeds on itself and in a vain attempt to escape the alcoholic increases the intake, lengthening and deepening a binge or making a transition to subsistence drinking, where alcohol is used just to “feel normal” and avoid the horrors of withdrawal. The clock keeps ticking and the illness progresses. The slope becomes steeper and more slippery.
In recovery, depression is normal. I found that the best thing was to rely on the doctor, other recovering alcoholics with more experience than I had and, most of all, not to drink.
W.
For alcoholics in recovery it seems unimportant where the AV is “located”. Its importance consists in what it is and what it does.
Consider depression and rage. Freud suggested that depression results from anger or rage turned inward. A son, angry at his father for believed to be excessive attentions to his mother, or angry at his mother for her excessive attentions to her daughter, may turn that rage inward and become depressed, saying “It’s all because I’m no good. I’m a horrible person”.
Much of Freud has now been discredited. Depression is usually attributed to brain chemical deficiencies, like serotonin. Uptake inhibitors increase the serotonin level and cognitive therapy is administered along with that.
All well and good for alcoholics, provided that they don’t drink, for alcohol is a depressant and not only interferes with the effectiveness of the prescriptions but increases the depression, accentuates the rage.
This feeds and nourishes the AV, which, assuming more and more control, screams, “spoon banging” like a baby, “I want what I want when I want it and I want it now!”
With denial, rage feeds on itself and in a vain attempt to escape the alcoholic increases the intake, lengthening and deepening a binge or making a transition to subsistence drinking, where alcohol is used just to “feel normal” and avoid the horrors of withdrawal. The clock keeps ticking and the illness progresses. The slope becomes steeper and more slippery.
In recovery, depression is normal. I found that the best thing was to rely on the doctor, other recovering alcoholics with more experience than I had and, most of all, not to drink.
W.
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Server2014: Great post! Thank you. What human brain is smart enough to understand the human brain? The most complex creature, other than the United States Internal Revenue Code and Regulations, along with the political "system" which created it, if it is a "system" at all other than nonlinear chaos. "God help us all!" to paraphrase Dickens Tiny Tim!
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