This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without

judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi, it's Annie Grace and I am answering readers questions and today I have a question from

Hannah and so she says, I can't thank you enough for your positive and inspiring work.

You give so much hope for all the people who struggle with alcohol. It's awesome.

You give us our dignity back. Love really is the answer and you give me this feeling that you care

for addictive persons with love instead of treating them as shame and guilt. It's the first time in

my life that I don't feel alone and misunderstood. Hannah, that makes me so happy. So that's great.

You are important in my life even if I don't personally know you. You are also important in my life.

That's awesome. Thank you for sending this. It's very important for me to just hear your words.

So she says, if my English isn't perfect, excuse myself, I'm from Belgium. Your audiobook changed

my beliefs forever. It opened so many doors to reach for help. Just the fact I don't feel alone

in this anymore and that I'm not blaming myself so much as a huge relief. Sadly, I'm not able to

to be sober for more than 12 days. I have this stubborn belief that the longer I'm sober,

the closer I am to relapse. I feel cravings getting bigger the longer I'm sober, like attention

that builds up. Sometimes it makes me scared to be sober because I notice that if I drink every day,

a little it is better for me than not drinking and feeling this huge tension and relapse in a dangerous

way. And this keeps me stuck and I'm scared of those relapses. Any tips about this? My second question

concerns medications like anabuse. How do you feel about it? It enhances, I feel it enhances my

belief that I can't do this on my own that only this pill helps me sustain. But I desperately want

to gain control over this myself without feeling deprived. Anabuse reinforces its feelings. It's

like my problem got worse since I tried anabuse because whenever I don't take it, I experience

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