This Simple Thought Helped Me Overcome My Alcohol Addiction

What do we owe ourselves?

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When I first quit drinking, my mind was a mess. It was filled with overlapping and conflicting thoughts about addiction, sobriety, and everything else in my life.

One moment I’d be thinking about how getting sober was the best decision I’d ever made. A minute later, I’d be telling myself that I was an idiot for trying to quit drinking and I’d never be able to stick with it. Thousands of thoughts like these were swirling around in my head. Sometimes I’d dwell on them for hours and other times they’d last for just a few seconds before being pushed out by the next one.