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For some, it’s not a craving for the drink but a desire to be free from the noise in their heads. Alcohol deadens that.

18 posted on 09/05/2015 4:04:34 PM PDT by Lizavetta

“For some, it’s not a craving for the drink but a desire to be free from the noise in their heads. Alcohol deadens that.”

Have had tinnitus in both ears since 1969, but I still have 21 years and 7 months sober as of today.

In my own case I was selfish, self-centered, very highly addicted physical, mentally and spiritually to the substance called alcohol.

Thanks to loving family, a professional interventionist, and AA, I stopped cold turkey, and have no regrets.

What you call “noise in their heads” I suggest may be pangs of guilt for their selfishness, withdrawal pains, self-induced temporary mental illness, to name a few.

37 posted on 09/05/2015 5:12:52 PM PDT by truth_seeker (come with the outlws.)

Thank you.

As a reformed functional alcoholic (sometimes) yes, thank you. The noise being that narrator voice spouting all sorts of thinga. The noise being a buzzing sound. The noise being my own cognitive mind thinking, obsessing on something, or many things.

I drank because, sometimespecially it was the only way to shut off my brain.

57 posted on 09/05/2015 7:10:11 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')

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