Lionrock Homework Phase 3, Step 2: 10 Thoughts that pose a threat to your Recovery

Make a list of 10 thoughts that pose a threat to your Recovery. 1. I’m a failure: I haven’t succeeded, and failed to achieve what I needed to in life. I’m wasted potential. 2. I’m going to get fired: I’m doomed because of circumstances at work and everyone in my family will suffer because of it. 3. I let everyone down that depends on me: I’ve failed to provide for everyone the way I should and I’ve failed in my most basic function as a father and husband. 4. Everyone has abandoned me: I’ve been left alone and no one cares. 5. No one will help me: Every one knows I have a problem, but no one is helping me get better. This proves they don’t care 6. No one will know: If I have just one drink alone, no one else will know, so what’s the harm? 7. I don’t have a drinking problem, I just don’t manage drinking well: This is the classic alcoholic thought, that somehow I can just manage drinking better and then it’d be no problem. 8. I don’t really need help: I wasn’t really that bad, I don’t really need counseling, AA, or any of that stuff. I’ll be OK on my own. 9. It’s crazy to think I’ll never drink again: If it’s crazy to think I’ll never ever even have so much as one beer for the rest of my entire life, why not have one right now? 10. It would be nice to be “normal” again: I’d like to go back to being like “everyone else” and have a drink or two and not make a disaster of myself (truth: I was never, ever, like “everyone else”).