The Batlord

But if you get over that hump of addiction then aren't you going to need to keep that social network to maintain your sobriety? I don't see JWB as being particularly able to build a new, "secular" social network of actual friends and whatnot so won't he be stuck? I imagine the comedown from realizing your new god boy friends are goofballs and then having nobody to cling to to keep you away from becoming a hole-in-the-ground-you-pour-booze-into will just make you hit the sauce harder.

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Frownland

It definitely doesn't work like that based on my experiences with alcoholics and addicts. I think that for the majority of people, addiction is a lifelong struggle.

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grindy

That's sad. Substance abuse is terrible but that **** is even worse.

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Chula Vista

Quote on alcohol.

"It is a very, very patient drug. It will always be there waiting for you to pick it up one more time." - Mercedes McCambridge (the voice of the devil in Exorcist)

I set 100 days as my initial goal. Got there and was feeling pretty good about it. Even went a bit public for the first time.

Day 101 was a massive struggle to avoid the f*cking dude sitting outside scratching at my door at night.

Stopped counting days after that.

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The Batlord

Yeah I know but I meant the initial hump of quitting and withdrawal and getting yourself back on some kind of even keel.

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Frownland

Well then maybe we shouldn't scratch new JWB alts off of the list of possibilities.

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The Batlord

I was assuming we're just trying to antagonize him into doing that.

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Chula Vista

So, I know he's back. WTF is he?

JWB!???

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OccultHawk

hey elph had a meltdown

any words of advice for our drunken lovesick fool?

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Chula Vista

Severity on a scale of 1 to 99?

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”