{"id":1228,"date":"2025-07-01T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sober.ie\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:18:19","slug":"imaginative-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sober.ie\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/imaginative-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginative Function"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

This is a phrase I learned from my many visits to Cuan Mhuire Residential Treatments. I\u2019m a dreamer, I think big. I think I\u2019m exposed to this trait significantly due to my gambling addiction. I\u2019m always thinking of next week’s win which never comes. I fantasize a lot, even this website is a fantasy in it\u2019s own right. Without putting the work in I envision it to be a huge success. Unfortunately life doesn\u2019t work that way. In addiction we are always imagining a world beyond our wildest dreams yet in my case I\u2019m just a bum sitting in a park getting wasted. I can\u2019t see beyond the fog around me that addiction has created.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Abstaining from imaginative function is the equivalent of living in the real world. Life will be shit, it will throw you curveballs. Life isn\u2019t easy, at present I am only beginning to be responsible. I\u2019ve stopped asking for handouts from my family which I\u2019m very proud of. I pay my own bills now. I own up to my mistakes and try to reflect on them. I am no longer a burden on society. I no longer think that \u2018every little thing is going to be ok\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>They say in addiction your maturity stops the minute you drink, use or gamble. I believe this to be true today. I\u2019m only beginning to learn that life can suck. Emotional maturity is halted too, as I have quoted before \u2018I\u2019m a thirty five year old child\u2019 (I\u2019m actually thirty six now).<\/span>
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\n<\/span>It\u2019s ok to have dreams too, just not as far fetched as mine. If I do the lotto I\u2019m already spending the millions in my head until 8pm when I realise my numbers didn\u2019t come in this time. I then fantasize of how it is God\u2019s will that there is a rollover so I can win even more millions. There\u2019s a fine line to insanity. My imaginative function is just that. Insanity.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>There comes a time in life where you have to live in the real world. I still have fantasies of winning on a lucky fifteen or getting five sevens on a slot machine. It\u2019s a habit of a lifetime I\u2019m trying to change. As I spoke about in a previous post too \u2018If it takes you twenty five days to walk into the forest, it will take you the same to walk out\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I can see clearly now how delusional addiction is. It’s a false comfort, over a long period of time it becomes habitual. I would ask anybody, are they really happy in their addiction? Is it something you dreamed of being growing up?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today for me was real. I enjoyed two meetings too, I binged on some food (progress not perfection) and most importantly of all I wasn\u2019t a burden nor did I offend anyone. Today was real. Today I made progress. I will continue to work on my imaginative function.\u00a0<\/span>
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