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Alcoholic Thinking
- Alcoholic Thinking Wilts Under Scrutiny-
It’s hard to rationalize that next drink after speaking out loud the latest excuse, to feel all alone when in a meeting room full of alcoholics, and even harder to break faith with your program when it has been aired in the public forum. That’s because alcoholic thinking wilts under scrutiny. The dark mental process that warps logic until a drink becomes the answer to alcoholism cannot survive when exposed to the light of day.
That is why it’s so important in early sobriety to share one’s struggle and avoid brooding alone. The same goes for those with some recovery under their belt. It doesn’t take much to slip back into old habits; a solid recovery requires attentive maintenance. Of course it takes much more than an open acknowledgment of our problem to find sobriety and enter recovery, it also takes diligent hard work, brutal honesty, and discipline. One thing is for sure though, lock an alcoholic up in a room with just their thoughts and there won’t be a problem they can’t solve… by drinking.
- Tatum O’Neal: Tried to Relapse?-
There’s an old saying that a relapse happens long before the first drink or drug use. For the alcoholic and addict, it is the planning and decision making behavior, the alcoholic thinking, which gets one in a position to buy that first drink or pill that is the actual start of a relapse.
Tatum O’Neal pled guilty today in court after being arrested last month for allegedly buying crack cocaine. Sounding more as if she was charged with jaywalking, she was ordered to attend two half day drug treatments and fined $95.
O’Neal recently confessed, “I was trying to relapse. I made a giant, horrible mistake that I regret and feel really ashamed and embarrassed about. I take full responsibility.” ~ The Celebrity Café
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