EP 550: Reader Question - Is there hope for long-time drinkers who keep relapsing?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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We often get questions from long-time drinkers who feel as if there is no hope left for them. They’ve been drinking for 40 years or more and just keep relapsing. Is there anything out there that can help them reverse that trend? Annie Grace shares her wisdom and insight into why making one change most haven’t tried before can make the biggest difference in those who keep relapsing.

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0:05.5	journey where you learn to develop a healthier relationship with alcohol without relying on
0:10.0	willpower. Why? Because the truth is that willpower runs out. Instead, you learn how to focus on what
0:16.4	you gain, not what you give up. So you can feel good about the decisions you make without shame or guilt.
0:22.0	With the 30 days of video training, virtual daily coaching, and a private and supportive community,
0:27.5	you get that and so much more. Join us today to get happier, healthier, and to take back your life.
0:33.6	Your Live Alcohol Experiment starts on the first, so sign up at livealcoholexperiment.com.
0:41.7	What about someone with a 40-year history of alcohol addiction and many relapses?
0:49.5	Is there hope for me? So there's always hope. And you know, sometimes for sure,
0:56.8	we encourage people if they're afraid, and it's worth repeating of like physical withdrawals or
1:02.3	real physical chemical addiction. Now, according to the CDC, only 10% of people who drink
1:07.3	excessively. So not 10% of all people, but 10% of excessive drinkers are chemically addicted to alcohol.
1:14.6	But if you're worried about that, working with someone in the medical professional, we are not doctors
1:20.5	and allowing them to help you with tapering or something like that. But the reality is that most
1:26.2	of what I would call addiction is your mindset. It is mental, because otherwise, how would you
1:34.1	explain that people can have multiple years of sobriety and then go back to it, right? Or they can be
1:39.2	sober, but still thinking about it and still wanting it and still having to exert a ton of effort
1:43.8	to do it. And so if you, the physical aspect, alcohol will leave your body relatively quickly,
1:50.5	and your brain will rebalance relatively quickly. But the mental aspect, the desires, if you haven't
1:58.5	really focused on that, then I don't think you've ever given yourself a real fair shot. I don't
2:03.9	think you've ever given yourself a real fair chance. But our society focuses almost entirely on
2:10.8	the physical aspects and almost not at all on what we think and believe about the substance.
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