Exploring Sobriety

Exploring Sobriety

The Irrationality of Addiction

No amount of logical thinking could keep me sober.

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Benya Clark
Apr 29, 2025
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I think it’s fair to call myself a rational person. I’ve always had strong deductive reasoning skills. I even spent five years teaching a logic test—the LSAT—for a living.

And yet, there’s one area of my life in which I was never able to think rationally: Addiction.

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