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Tatsy,
The Beast will exploit any tragedy to suit its single-minded agenda. It will tell you that you should not feel bad about your dog being injured, and then suggest taking away your ability to be there and care for your wounded friend by getting drunk. Disgusting, no?
The Beast is a sinister, ruthless potential, and it doesn't care about anyone or anything. To the Beast, the world is just one large spherical drinking establishment hurtling through wide open space. The only thing that it wants you to "cope" and "deal" with is its own deprivation.
Be as cruel to the Beast as IT would be to others, human or canine. Abstain, take care of your companion, and do not concern yourself with the Beast's suffering from deprivation.
(See "How Rotten Can the Beast Be?" on Pages 191-193 of RR: TNC)
The Beast will exploit any tragedy to suit its single-minded agenda. It will tell you that you should not feel bad about your dog being injured, and then suggest taking away your ability to be there and care for your wounded friend by getting drunk. Disgusting, no?
The Beast is a sinister, ruthless potential, and it doesn't care about anyone or anything. To the Beast, the world is just one large spherical drinking establishment hurtling through wide open space. The only thing that it wants you to "cope" and "deal" with is its own deprivation.
Be as cruel to the Beast as IT would be to others, human or canine. Abstain, take care of your companion, and do not concern yourself with the Beast's suffering from deprivation.
(See "How Rotten Can the Beast Be?" on Pages 191-193 of RR: TNC)
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I'm so glad you're here Algorithm, with your wise words. Yes, I shall re-read the pages you referenced. You're so accurate. I shall deny the Beast it's craving and instead by able and ready to properly care for my darling dog when he returns from the veterinary surgery. I love my dogs more than myself, so the fact that my Beast is willing to encourage me to become so incapacitated due to drinking, that I'm unable to care for my seriously ill dog, is evidence of its ruthlessness. I must continue to defeat it by being just as ruthless to its pleas for alcohol; meeting like with like.
Thank you for being here, although I realise it's probably because you're incapacitated. I continue to wish you a speedy and positive recovery.
Thank you for being here, although I realise it's probably because you're incapacitated. I continue to wish you a speedy and positive recovery.
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Originally Posted by GerandTwine 
Hi Sainos,
You are correct on the " last statements". It's truly sad, but understandable, why an addiction treatment "professional" would regard what you have done as "sounding insane". Coddling and integrating the Beast into perpetual and endless recovery is a parallel universe with a long history of its own creation. You are now free from it.
GT
You are correct on the " last statements". It's truly sad, but understandable, why an addiction treatment "professional" would regard what you have done as "sounding insane". Coddling and integrating the Beast into perpetual and endless recovery is a parallel universe with a long history of its own creation. You are now free from it.
GT
According to her if I called her method insane, then there's a "fault" in me, that she called my method insane, there's still a "fault" in me, that's what I hate about recovery groups (of any sort), unless you agree with what they say, you are always wrong. Thats what I meant when I said I was afraid of losing my "self"
Although it would be insane anyone in the recovery industry to suggest that people could do it alone by just not drinking and getting on with their lives, they would all be out of a job. Or at least out of a "life purpose" if it is not their job, but what keeps them from drinking again.
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Originally Posted by Tatsy
Oh, meant to type 'me like a bull with a ring in my nose'. When I was drinking,mid slowly, methodically type and spell correctly. Now, I've much lost time to regain and type fast, but corrected the above, because, otherwise, it didn't make sense! Oh, plus, I can't stop using exclamation marks because I'm a Baddass. Freshstart coined the phrase to me and being in the UK it sounded bad, so I googled it.
So yes, Badass, tough, uncompromising and intimidating - towards that silly Beast, with its wrong attachment to alcohol as a requirement for my wellbeing.
So yes, Badass, tough, uncompromising and intimidating - towards that silly Beast, with its wrong attachment to alcohol as a requirement for my wellbeing.
I agree with everything in your post before this too.
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Originally Posted by Goodfellas
Isn't he presence of the beast indeed a problem ? Confused - if it weren't a problem we would need AVRT / rational recovery ?
The AV IS that voice, those images and feelings, but with alcohol, it mistakenly thinks we need it. So the way I see it, the BEAST brain is the drive, the need and the AV is the means with which the Beast gets those needs met.
If I recognise certain "self talk" as not me but the BEAST looking for a way to meet IT's needs, then I can seperate from IT from me and IT's needs should no longer concern me!
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