tambo wrote:
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.
Well said. My thoughts exactly. While I am very happy for 09.1's success and confidence in his cure and don't want to as you say rain on someone's parade, I think I will be very cautious in making any such declaration. I'll want to feel I'm cure subjectively and then have a period of many months of sustained success with supporting (objective?) data (i.e., consistently low weekly unit numbers) before I will truly feel confident that I'm cured. This is not really meant as criticism, but rather an observation that I would be skeptical of my own cure until it was sustained for a period of months, not weeks.
Having said that, congrats to 09. Your progress gives us all hope.
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But outside of when I stopped taking the pill, I haven't had a hangover or blackout. I couldn't be happier with where I'm at. Thanks for asking.