Obsessive Thinking – Episode 197
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🗓️ 4 April 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Do you obsess over your loved one's drinking? Do you keep chewing over past actions or wrongs done to you? How can we stop? What is obsessive thinking? What are some other words? Wallowing (in negativity/fear/anger) Resentment (as we discussed last week) Ruminating / chewing over (past wrongs / future problems) Looping What sorts of...
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| 0:00.0 | Do you obsess over whether your loved one will stop drinking? Do you obsess over what might happen the possible disaster scenarios in the future? |
| 0:11.0 | Or maybe you can't stop chewing over something that happened in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to episode 197 of the recovery show. This episode is brought to you by Sarah, |
| 0:21.3 | Eric, Charlotte, Michelle, and Marin. They used the donation button on |
| 0:26.0 | our website. Thank you, Sarah, Eric, Charlotte, Michelle, and Marin for your generous |
| 0:30.4 | contributions. This episode is for you. |
| 0:33.3 | We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and |
| 0:37.2 | happiness. We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand |
| 0:41.4 | as perhaps few others can. So much depends on our own |
| 0:44.3 | attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Before we begin we would |
| 0:49.0 | like to state that though we at the recovery show may be in a 12-step program who represent ourselves rather than the program. |
| 0:54.7 | During this show we will share our own experiences. |
| 0:57.1 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
| 1:00.3 | Take what you like and leave the rest. |
| 1:02.1 | I hope you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. |
| 1:05.0 | My name is Spencer and I'm your host today. I want to start this topic with a reading and there were there were so many choices about obsession, obsessive thinking, but I chose this one. |
| 1:15.2 | It's from our daily reader, Courage to Change, May 20th. Like alcoholism, |
| 1:20.1 | obsessive thinking can be too much to handle. My best hope in battling it is not to begin, because once started it gains steam and becomes harder to interrupt. |
| 1:28.0 | Before obsessive thinking takes hold, there's usually a point at which I have to make a choice. I can opt to mentally toy with |
| 1:34.5 | the subject that has held my mind hostage in the past and is therefore dangerous. Or I can recognize |
| 1:39.2 | the danger and try to drop any thoughts of the topic from my mind praying for my higher powers help. |
| 1:44.1 | I can reach out to an Al-Anem member for support before tackling a topic to which I am vulnerable |
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