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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.
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alcoholic
alone
binging
cat
cats
drinking
empty-your-head
ignorance
ignoring
insomnia
lonely
mantra
murphy-s-law
playing-hard-to-get
self-assurance
sleep
sleeping
stop-thinking
talking-to-yourself
the-mind
thinking
thinking-process
thoughts
voices-inside-your-head
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Gillian Flynn |
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I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.
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alcoholic
alcoholism
alcoholism-addiction-recovery
mad
miserable
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Anne Brontë |
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You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.
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addiction
addiction-cure
addiction-disease
addiction-treatment-center
alcohol-addiction
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alcoholics-anonymous
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passages-malibu
passages-ventura
pax-prentiss
rehab
rehab-centers
self-help
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Chris Prentiss |
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Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?' 'Oh, rather!' 'What do you do about it?' 'I generally take a couple of cocktails.
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alcoholic
depression
desolation
emptiness
humor
sorrow
soul
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P.G. Wodehouse |
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At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches of aspens and pines. A hard wind blows snow up out of a cavern and over my face. I know this place, I know its seasons - I have hiked these mountains in the summer and walked these winding pathways in the explosion of colour that is a northern fall. And now, the temperature drops well below zero and the deadly cold lake rages below, I feel the stirrings of faith that here, in this place, in my heart, spring will come again. But first the winter must be waited out. And that waiting has worth.
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alcoholic
anorexia
bulimia
eating-disorder
mental-illness
recovery
spirituality
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Marya Hornbacher |
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There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.
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alcoholic
death
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George R.R. Martin |
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"AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable."
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12-step-programs
aa
addiction-cure
alcohol
alcohol-abuse
alcoholic
alcoholics-anonymous
alcoholism
alcoholism-addiction-recovery
drug-abuse
drug-addiction
empowerment
non-12-step
non-12-step-programs
passages-malibu
passages-rehab
passages-ventura
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Chris Prentiss |
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To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
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addiction-treatment
alcohol-abuse
alcoholic
alcoholism
change
chris-prentiss
healing
healing-abuse
holistic-treatment
life-improvement
non-12-step
passages-malibu
passages-rehab
passages-treatment
passages-ventura
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rehab
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therapy
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