Great thread! I am glad you are working with the panic symptoms without meds, Loppy... that is the only way to really put it down behind you. Doesn't mean you won't ever have some of those symptoms, just that they won't devastate and disable you.
Relapse prevention, that IS the name of the game, isn't it??? Alan Marlatt, the very prominent addiction psychologist at the University of Washington, is pioneering and researching mindfulness meditation as a core intervention/practice for relapse prevention... good results, so far... Also there is a large research group working on the same thing at University of Wisconsin. It certainly is a core part of my own relapse prevention plan.
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Was there a point where you felt like I've described - where Not Drinking was important, yet not the whole bag of chips?
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DG, good question! I, too, hope to eventually arrive at a point where Not Drinking is a pre-requisite or foundation stone for a Good Life, but not necessarily something that takes up a huge amount of head space or energy.
wip