“Observe your thoughts and feelings, positive and negative, about drinking or using. Thoughts and feelings that support continued use are called Addictive Voice (AV); those that support abstinence are you. When you recognize and understand your AV, it becomes not-you, but “it,” an easily defeated enemy that has been causing you to drink. All it wants is pleasure. “I want a drink” becomes “It wants a drink.” Think to yourself, “I will never drink again,” and listen for its reaction. Your negative thoughts and feelings are your AV talking back to you. Now, think, “I will drink/use whenever I please.” Your pleasant feelings are also the AV, which is in control. Recovery is not a process; it is an event. The magic word is “Never,” as in “I will never drink/use again.” Recognition defeats short-term desire, and abstinence soon becomes effortless. Complete separation of “you” from “it” leads to complete recovery and hope for a better life. The only time you can drink is now, and the only time you can quit for good is right now. “I will never drink/use again” becomes “I never drink now.” It’s not hard; anyone can do it.”
I loved this book. I did not read all of it, but I would highly suggest anyone who has any kind of addiction read it. The first chapter blows your mind, because it says things that go against everything the 12-step programs for recovery say. “Recovery is not a process; it is an event.”
I never believed addiction is a disease that renders you helpless. Yes, addiction has roots in an antibiotic resistant infection that changes the way your brain processes dopamine. And the subhuman slave race of this stupid imaginary game has made it so people cannot absorb calcium, and calcium regulates neurotransmitter production. Which means most people are unable to get high on life and feel good from doing things that are good for them. It means their brains do not positively reinforce healthy/natural behaviors.
However, doing drugs is just going to make this all worse. Drugs grow the antibiotic resistant infection in your body making you process dopamine even more dysfunctionally. And drugs also impair your ability to absorb calcium by damaging your gut bacteria. Which makes you dysfunctionally produce neurotransmitters even more. It is a snowball effect. It just keeps getting worse and worse, bigger and bigger.
Addicts like to say that they have a disease because it gives them an excuse to act badly and be dysfunctional. If they have a disease they cannot be held accountable, right? They are powerless, right? Horseshit! Everyone is responsible for their own actions.
The modern world is set up to damage our brains via our limbic systems and our gut bacteria. This brain damage in our amygdala is what hinders people from taking accountability for their actions. Because not only does it damage emotional regulation, but it blocks access to our critical logical brain.
Remember the book: Darwin’s Lost Theory-Who We Really Are and Where We’re Going-Book Three by David Loye ? In this book, we learned that the thalamocingulate division of the brain gets damaged by toxins. This is the part of the brain responsible for altruism and empathy. This is also, the part of the brain that is responsible for self-evaluation, learning from mistakes, and adapting actions based on an understanding of consequences.
Addicts have brain damage. It is not permanent, but the more they use the worse it gets. We all have brain damage, some just worse than others. But this is also the brain damage that leads to cluster b personality disorders. And apparently it is also why some people want to call addiction a disease. Because don’t all people with cluster b personality disorders have an addiction of some sort? What groups them all together is their addiction to destruction and emotional dysregulation. They are addicted to hurting people. They sure love poisoning people(Munchausen by Proxy) and themselves (Munchausen). That is the foundation of cluster b personality disorders.
Which is funny because toxins in the limbic system are what lead to cluster b personality disorders. They literally cause their own dis-ease. And poison others so they are not alone in their dis-ease. Misery loves company, right?
If you had a fixable health condition and it was effecting your life negatively, would you fix it? You can talk about having brain damage all day, but it will not help it get better. You can stop doing drugs, but that will not fix the reason why you chose to do the drugs. You can work on your deep seeded issues that you think are the reason you do drugs. But really it is the brain damage that gets in the way of you emotionally processing your trauma and hardships that is causing you to want to do drugs in the first place. It is your gut bacteria not producing enough of the short chain fatty acid butyrate that is getting the way of you handling the stress from your life events. It is the lack of vitamin K2 producing gut bacteria that is allowing free floating calcium to damage your brain in your amygdala. Which causes you to be in a constant fear state. Which causes you to be stuck in your ego.
The thalamocingulate division of the brain supports accountability by integrating cognitive control, error monitoring, and motivation to influence behavior. How in the world are you going to stop doing drugs if you cannot be accountable for your own actions? When the thalamocingulate division of the brain is damaged your going to develop a cluster b personality disorder. And we all know they do not take accountability for anything.
So you know how Jack Trimpey in “Rational Recovery” says that you have two voices in your head. There is you and then there is the Addictive Voice (AV)? Well, the two different voices he is talking about are your critical logical brain and your reptilian brain. Your critical logical brain is you. And your reptilian brain is your Addictive Voice. It seeks pleasure and is very emotional about it.
I have been drinking fountain soda a lot lately, because it sanitizes my colon. And I enjoy sugar and caffeine. However, it has been so poisoned a LOT lately. I am so swollen and my organs are failing. I have fluid all over my core from my heart and kidneys and liver backing up with toxins. I know better than to drink the dam soda. And I recently finally was able to clean out my colon, so the sanitizing my colon excuse is no longer valid.
When I read the first chapter of this book, I had a lightbulb moment. The voice that says drink the soda is my reptilian brain. It craves comfort at all costs, even at the cost of my organs failing. I knew I needed to quit, but I hadn’t really thought about why I would risk so much over a soda. But it is more than a soda. It is ritual, routine, and comfort. I don’t get a lot or really any comfort or ritual and routines in my life since this revolution started in 2021. My family and you people have always stolen anything from me that makes me happy or brings me joy or comfort. I was drinking fountain soda to self-soothe and comfort myself, on top of sanitizing my colon(sugar is a preservative because it kills bacteria in high doses).
Jack doesn’t say that AV is the reptilian brain, but he does say that the voice that wants you to quit is you. And you live in your critical logical brain. And your reptilian brain is the part of your brain where emotions live. It is the survival part of your brain. And the part that craves pleasure and comfort. When you are stuck in your ego, you are stuck in your reptilian brain. Modern society stresses us all out so much that most people are stuck in their ego. I was drinking fountain soda to just try to survive. It was an ego response. Drugs are the same thing. Any addiction is the same thing. Any mal-adaptive behavior is most likely coming from your reptilian brain and your ego.
I will probably drink a fountain soda again at some point in my life. I may even have one soon. But I will not be drinking them as much. And once you people stop trying to kill me and poisoning my fountain sodas with chemicals that make my organs fail, then I can have a soda and not have to read a book about addiction to figure out why I can’t stop drinking something that is killing me.
I am so tired of you people killing me. But I am even more tired of people lacking the ability to be accountable for their actions. Addiction is not a disease. It stems from people not being able to be accountable for their actions because of emotional dysregulation. Which is caused by toxins in the limbic system damaging the brain. Did you think poisoning yourselves and each other would not have consequences? Did you think you all could just be terrorists for generations and it would not have consequences?
We inherit our gut bacteria. So the more your family is into this stupid imaginary game, the more prone you are to addiction. It doesn’t mean you are destined to a life of drug addiction and loosing everything. It just means you have to fix yourself. You literally have to take accountability for your own health and that includes the health of your brain.
I highly recommend this book to everyone. Everyone has something they do too much. I believe I am entitled to drink a fountain soda. While you all believe you are entitled to poison my fountain sodas and food and everything else so it makes my organs fail. We all have entitlement issues. We all have ego issues. The first step in solving any problem is realizing there is a problem.
The problem stems from your brain and your gut bacteria. Fix it!