EP 354: Reader Question - How do you deal with mental cravings?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Annie Grace answers a reader's question about mental cravings. But, how can we deal with them if we’re not sure what they are? First, Annie talks about the differences between the physical and mental aspects of alcohol addiction. She then deconstructs mental cravings, how they keep us stuck, and what we can do to tackle them.

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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.
0:28.2	So this is Annie and I am answering readers questions and I have a pretty simple but very
0:34.0	simply worded but very in-depth question today and the question is how do you deal with
0:39.1	mental cravings?
0:40.7	So the reality of alcohol use disorder, alcohol abuse, alcohol addiction, whatever you want
0:47.7	to call it is that there's a physical aspect and mental aspect.
0:52.5	And the physical aspect is pretty straightforward, I would say, in terms of you drink alcohol,
0:59.7	your body compensates for alcohol by triggering certain things to happen and then when you
1:04.6	take the alcohol away, your body has to rebalance and the body is super smart so it can anticipate
1:11.2	so if you're drinking every single day, it will overcompensate for the presence of alcohol
1:16.7	on a regular basis and when you yank the alcohol away, it takes a little while for those
1:21.8	processes to go back to normal and for your body to rebalance.
1:25.0	So just like if you're eating a ton of sugar and so your body is compensating for the presence
1:29.8	of a ton of sugar and it's pre-compensating, then when you take that sugar away, you're
1:34.9	going to feel a crash or caffeine.
1:37.2	It's another good example.
1:38.6	If you're drinking caffeine every single day and you're relying on it to make you feel
1:42.4	better and of course you need more and more of all of these things to feel the same.
1:46.5	That's what tolerance is because your body adapts to it and then you take the caffeine away,
1:51.7	you could have headaches, you could have tiredness, stuff like that.
1:54.4	Now the reality is that physically alcohol leaves the system, I think the max time is within
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