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For me, each rock bottom was what recovery people call a ‘convincer’. They added fuel to my desire to get sober.
‘I think dependent drinkers have enough self-loathing anyway,’ says Dr Julia Lewis, a consultant addiction psychiatrist for Alcohol Concern. ‘Most of them actually need a good dose of compassion.’
Thoughts don’t reign you. Thoughts are locked in your head. They can’t move your hand. You can deny thoughts of drinking, argue back, soothe them, laugh at them or stroke them until they fall asleep.
