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Mental Health Support

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1. Becoming bored with drinking is a fantastic opportunity.

Reply to angstlessk (Original post)

Tue Jul 1, 2014, 08:03 PM

Jul 2014

Trying not too sound too boosterish, but I mean it. It means you still have your brain intact. What is left is just being bored till the next interesting thing comes along. No way to know how long it will be, but it's sure to come. Or if not, just be bored some more.

I've always liked the admonition from Walker Percy: pretend you have killed yourself.

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When you drink because you are bored...then [View all] angstlessk Jul 2014 OP

Becoming bored with drinking is a fantastic opportunity. enough Jul 2014 #1

Hell, never thought about it like that angstlessk Jul 2014 #3

Ya know, we moved to Detroit because of financial difficulties angstlessk Jul 2014 #5

It sounds like there is a lot more wrong than simply being bored. Tobin S. Jul 2014 #2

If I abstain from alcohol I would be bored with my life angstlessk Jul 2014 #4

That's probably not boredom. Tobin S. Jul 2014 #6

Can't boredom be a useful response of a well functioning brain? HereSince1628 Jul 2014 #7