Aiming a BMW ⚖️
"I drink to forget I drink."
—Actor Joe E. Lewis
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One research study from 2010 points to the crushing paradox of alcoholism.
- The abuse continues despite endless pain and suffering caused by days-long binges or heavy daily drinking.
Scientists today know enough about the intuitive mind – also known as the implicit or unconscious mind – that we may be able to predict binge drinking in youths from a year away.
In other select cases, specialists can work to directly interfere with the unconscious processes that help power addiction, says a 2018 study.
- For alcoholics, self-control is brutal.
- Conscious intentions alone often aren't enough to overcome the unconscious wanting.
Multiple DUIs are common. Multiple relapses and stays at treatment centers are common.
While attending mandated DUI courses, I became pals with a man who was once an executive at a prominent Oklahoma bank.
He wound up in the local newspaper after aiming his BMW at a school in the middle of the night.
A ditch stopped him from reaching the target. He went to jail.
We'd both been trying to quit for years.
At Alcoholics Anonymous, one hears endless similar stories about relapses and the shame and embarrassment that follow.
Said one man at a meeting:
"I repair and then I damage again."
- next time "Cues and associations can elicit a natural-feeling hunger."
- listening Johnny Cash "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
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