Congrats, Nemo! I'm so happy for you!

check out mclanet 0236 in the weekly progress thread!!!!! WHOOHOOOO!

Congratulations!!!! I am looking forward to being on the list!!

I'm calling it: I am declared cured as of 10/11/10- no cravings, barely drinking and if I do its punishment to swallow.

Started 4th Aug 2010, you do the math.

Zero_nine has gone, this is Zero_nine_point_one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-LjNI9B8U

Its my time.

Z9.1 - Congratulations!!! This is so exciting!!! Tell us more.... I'm so very, very happy for you BTDT

Thank you so much! I can't explain it, its the funniest feeling. It is not at all as I imagined it. Like today, I was like, "why, why don't you want to drink? of course you want to drink" the reality is, I try but I can't. I start, but it just isn't "me" anymore. It feels alien to drink- largely, but not to the extreme, its so hard to explain. Objectively, I'm drinking a negligable amount. Subjectively, I feel dissociated, all of a sudden I have to figure out who I am and what I do. And its funny, cos I posted in my declaration a boxing video- competitive fitness seems to be resurfacing where drinking was before- this is something that I loved before alcohol- it was sitting in the background waiting its turn to spring.
What can I say? I am delighted and relieved. I am not ecstatic though because I know that I have an indefinate vacuum to fill. This of course, from a realistic standpoint is exactly what I wanted and therefore in my final analysis I am delighted. I am 26 and I am cured.

Cured.


At the end of a game you get the credits. And no less here are my credits:
beentheredonethat
BenTSM
joe12pack
Jim Clark
Saint Vincent
BGH
path
yogagirl
StJude
Kiwichick
rob

I owe you a something special, I'm not sure what yet.

I don't think this whole situation will sink in to much, much later in life. I feel blessed.

Right On!

It's your time.
But it's our time for a beacon of hope.
Congrats.

Z9.1,

Thanks for such a detailed and eloquent description of how it feels. It seems like the "void" experience is common for the cured. I hope you keep posting and telling us how you fill your life with healthier and better alternatives. Competitive sports seem like a perfect place to find healthy endorphins! Congrats again. Happy doesn't even express how I feel. How lucky you are to be cured at such a young age . BTDT

Wow! I'm so happy for you kiddo! And in such a short time. So many have been helped by Dr. Sinclair and Dr. Eskapa. Maybe we all should e-mail Dr. Sinclair through his Lightlake site and tell him about how well we're all doing...

There is a contact e-mail address through that site and even though it goes to someone else on Dr. Sinclair's team, he will get it.

And if anyone is in touch with Dr. Eskapa or knows how to get a message to him maybe we should thank him too...

Hey 09.1,

I'm so happy for you. It's great that your cravings are totally gone, but at the same time I feel like you're declaring yourself cured a little prematurely. I know that only you can know yourself and you have the right to declare yourself cured whenever you want so I apologize if it sounds like I'm trying to rain on your parade. I just know that in the past, there were times where I thought that I had control over my alcoholism only for it to rear its ugly little head again sometime later. It sounds like TSM is definitely working for you and I sincerely hope you continue to have no cravings for the rest of your life. And I agree with the others, your progress definitely gives me so much hope for myself.