Hi everyone,

Now that I've been using TSM for over a year, I drink four to six beers one night every two weeks (I've been drinking at this low level since the beginning of December). The rest of the time I don't drink and have no desire to do so. Considering that before I found TSM I went on binges of a week to two weeks' duration, drinking a half-gallon of vodka per day, this is a very welcome development. In the early months of TSM, I drank between nine and fourteen beers PER DAY on naltrexone. Along the way, I experienced fluctuating drinking levels, worried at times that TSM wasn't working for me, and even made the huge mistake of drinking without naltrexone (this landed me back in the hospital, just like in my pre-TSM days). Now my life is better than it has ever been. I haven't been to an AA meeting in four years, and don't miss it a bit.

I stopped visiting this social network for a while when I was having a tough time, but now I am happy to return as someone who feels cured. I want to have a full year of no binges or hospitalizations behind me before I state that I am cured, but that's just my personal decision because of how bad my alcoholism was and the fact that I had to be hospialized after every single drinking episode for the last ten years.

I already posted my video on Vimeo. I am now posting my new Youtube channel. The video is the same one as on Vimeo, but I also have some "favorites" that are interviews with Roy Eskapa and David Sinclair that were uploaded by other Youtube users. I hope some or all of the material on this channel helps more alcoholics find and use TSM: http://www.youtube.com/user/NaltrexZone?feature=mhum

All the best,
Ben

What a delightfull post to read. Im very happy for you Ben. Your bravery is to be commended for putting your name out there in the hopes it helps other people.

Hey Ben.

I absolutely LOVE what you are doing but I do have some thoughts that I think might help spread the word about TSM.

As a once-described "cured" person using TSM, I do not believe this term is helping our cause: namely, to make TSM credible and widely-accepted. The term is used over and over again in Roy Eskapa's book but that book is quite flawed, IMO. The promise of a three to four month "cure" has proven to be a complete fallacy, as evidenced by the collective experience of over 700 members on the TSM board. The reality of our collective experience is that the vast majority who drink on Naltrexone will see huge improvement in increased control and reduced consumption. The ranks of the those seeing improvement has been all over the map, from those claiming a complete "cure" to those who cite drastically reduced (but ongoing) consumption and increased control. A small percentage -- as accurately cited in the book, IMO -- are not impacted by TSM.

You and I both declared ourselves "cured" only to go back to drinking without Naltrexone (albeit briefly) and meeting with near disaster. Moreover, we did this after a year -- well beyond the fabled "three to four month cure" promised over and over again in the book. And if I'm not mistaken, the book does not cite a single instance of a "cured" person going back to drinking without Naltrexone, which, as our experience shows, completely defies credibility and reality. This realty strongly reinforces my position that the term "cured" is misleading and sets people up for possible failure. In light of this revolutionary treatment and tremendous skepticism that if faces, TSM EXPECTATIONS SHOULD NOT BE EXAGGERATED. Failed expectations completely undermine the reality that TSM does work, but to varying degrees. If anything, expectations should be minimized, in order to increase the credibility of the treatment and to prevent setting people up for failure.

I am happy to discuss this matter openly and publicly with anyone who is interested. I also am willing to go public with my identity in an effort to spread the word.

Keep up the great work.

My best,

Nick