Weird Things My Addict Brain Does in Recovery : Alcoholism
Ten weird things my alcoholic brain still does in recovery — and why none of them run my life anymore.
I've been in recovery since 2015. I relapsed around seven and a half years in, and I'm back — a year and a half sober again. This is a solo one: just me laughing at my own brain out loud, because I'm convinced it works differently than someone who doesn't have this thing. For me, alcoholism is a disease of perception — I'm the center, everyone else is just orbiting, and I only ever get my own lens.
So I made a list of the patterns I still catch myself running. The arguments I win against…
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