EP 306: Reader Question - How can I live without 'The Alcohol Buzz?'

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Does it feel like you cannot live without “The Alcohol Buzz?” How do you challenge that belief? How do you rationalize with yourself that you can replace alcohol with something else? Can anything else really replace alcohol? In today’s episode, Annie Grace shares the science behind the “buzz” and how to navigate trade-offs.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace. I'm here answering readers questions and today I have a question about the buzz.
0:33.8	This is a question and it says, hey Annie, she was the buzz that I get from drinking that first drink.
0:38.2	I've always loved that. The ah moment and the gentle fuzziness and easing of tensions.
0:42.2	I know that I continue to drink in my vein attempt to maintain that feeling but never again achieve
0:48.2	at that drink session. Again that feeling and then I end up feeling wish crappy due to all that I drink.
0:54.2	How do I challenge the desire to believe that I can live without the buzz? That just in that moment,
0:58.2	how do I rationalize with myself that I can replace it? I'm scared that unless I can find a way to pull this belief out and change it,
1:04.2	challenge it, I won't succeed even though I consciously know I want this.
1:08.2	Is there something you can advise that will help me challenge this? It feels like I might,
1:12.2	this one belief might sabotage my chance of success quite so concerned.
1:16.2	Okay, so this is such a good question. First of all, I want to explain what the buzz is.
1:22.2	Okay, so there's a few different aspects to the buzz. The buzz that happens when we drink.
1:27.2	One of the aspects is the fact that alcohol actually slows down how quickly your brain processes thoughts.
1:34.2	So it slows down your neural connection. So how one, you know, one signal or impulse will go to the next,
1:40.2	it slows that process down.
1:42.2	So if in my thinking about this, if you are in a position where most of us are,
1:48.2	where our thoughts from yesterday are the same as our thoughts from today,
1:52.2	most of our thoughts have a somewhat negative bent to them. You know, they're quite intense in terms of,
1:58.2	you know, negativity and we're sitting and we're like just thinking the same things and we're stewing and we're frantic and we're busy.
2:04.2	And all of a sudden, you pour something in your body that like turns down that and like gives you space between your thoughts,
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