it is quite normal for an alcoholic to "think" about
drinking...........................
my sponsor use to tell me "i could THINK about drinking, for 18
seconds, and after that it became a character defect!"

LOL!

just make sure your not GLORIFING the old drinking
days........................if they were all that good, you never
would have stopped, right?

rosie

"cashew" <cashew@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:ckc39d$2k2$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> Hi. My name's Cashew (yes, I consider myself a nut) and I'm an alcoholic.
> I'm 33 and have been drinking since the age of about 16. My daily intake
was
> around 2-3 bottles of wine (more if I finished that and the off licence
was
> still open). I had a life changing spiritual experience using psychedelic
> mushrooms on July 17th and haven't had a drink since.
>
> I thought I had it sussed. My mental and physical health improved
immensely
> as did my broken relationships with my friends and family.
>
> Yesterday I met up with an old school friend / drinking buddy I haven't
seen
> for months. It was a normal thing for us to go out to the local for a few
> beers and a take-away.
>
> My alcoholic mind returned. I began to justify a 'night off' being
> alcoholic! One night won't hurt etc. It was like someone had flipped a
> switch in my brain whereby I felt I was entitled to go 'socialise' like
> other people. My friend, knowing my situation was great in that he manage
to
> perusade me it was a bad idea. So, we had a quiet night in.. watched TV
and
> went to bed sober.
>
> This morning I awoke feeling shocked guilty at last nights plans. How
could
> I have come so close to drinking again despite all I have been through!?!
> How do you deal with encounters like this?
>
>
>

At the end of the day --- you went to bed sober. Sure, you have some things
to work out -- Some Major Things, no doubt, but for another day you made it.
That is probably a lot for today.

Bobby L

cashew wrote:
|| "dorsal" <dorsal@fin.com> wrote in message
|| news:HXgad.3437$Ia5.459@edtnps89...
||| cashew wrote:
||||| Hi. My name's Cashew (yes, I consider myself a nut) and I'm an
||||| alcoholic. I'm 33 and have been drinking since the age of about
||||| 16. My daily intake was around 2-3 bottles of wine (more if I
||||| finished that and the off licence was still open). I had a life
||||| changing spiritual experience using psychedelic mushrooms on July
||||| 17th and haven't had a drink since.
|||||
||||| I thought I had it sussed. My mental and physical health improved
||||| immensely as did my broken relationships with my friends and
||||| family.
|||||
||||| Yesterday I met up with an old school friend / drinking buddy I
||||| haven't seen for months. It was a normal thing for us to go out to
||||| the local for a few beers and a take-away.
|||||
||||| My alcoholic mind returned. I began to justify a 'night off' being
||||| alcoholic! One night won't hurt etc. It was like someone had
||||| flipped a switch in my brain whereby I felt I was entitled to go
||||| 'socialise' like other people. My friend, knowing my situation
||||| was great in that he manage to perusade me it was a bad idea. So,
||||| we had a quiet night in.. watched TV and went to bed sober.
|||||
||||| This morning I awoke feeling shocked guilty at last nights plans.
||||| How could I have come so close to drinking again despite all I
||||| have been through!?! How do you deal with encounters like this?
|||
||| Because you have NOT HAD A life-changing spiritual experience!!!!
||| You have conned yourself into believing that you have had one,
||| though. Sobriety requires DAILY action. GO TO MEETINGS.
|||
|||
||
|| Thanks for your reply.
||
|| I consider the realization of alcohol abuse, the stopping, the
|| rebuilding of my health and changing from agnostic to a spiritual
|| faith, "life changing" don't you?
||
|| Spiritual experiences *do* happen with psychedelics. Go meditate and
|| ask Bill W.
||

Bill W. was no paragon of virtue. Psychedelics only make one THINK that they
had a spiritual experience. NO LASTING EFFECT.


|| http://www.psychedelic-library.org/hoffer.htm