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Jen0125 posted...

Honestly literally all you can do is self control. If you can afford therapy that's great. But you really need to just NOT go to the store. It's not easy to do but it is what it is. The longer you go not drinking the less you'll think about it. But it took me 2 years before all those thoughts left. So it's a long process.

Like you say it's almost an unconscious process when you go to the store. When you notice yourself on the bike turn around. You have to make that choice.

i have a therapist but we've never discussed the drinking, talked about it a bit with my medication provider as she asked. what do you think the therapist would say if i brought it up? like what kind of strategies do you think she would recommend that might make the self-control process a bit easier to handle?

thank you by the way for your posts,