Hi, I did the opposite and actually posted higher numbers because I honestly don't know what I drank pre-tsm. I would drink a large bottle of wine some nites and then go days without drinking and then who knows!
It was feast or famine with me. Now, and I am repeating myself, with counting the numbers I really have cut down. I don't guzzle the drinks anymore. I did have more wine than usual yesterday because of the holiday and off my usual schdule but again it was not over the top. I remember everthing and feel fine today. I have a half finished bottle of vodka in my cabinet that is over 2 weeks old and that would never happen before. It would be bloody mary time in the a.m. after a night of drinking and a severe hangover. I don't know if I will actually drink that or throw it out. The vodka just doesn't sound good to me. I also had beer on Friday with friends and just drank because I was out and everyone else was! I just couldn't wait for the coffee to be put on. I really didn't like the beer at all after the first couple! My husband who can take it or leave it had quite a few beers, like maybe 12 during the course of the day starting at noon. That was very unusual for him and it worried me. I usually would not notice because I would be drunk myself. He is a big guy 6'2 and can handle it well, but I was the one worried for a change. Sober buy the time we were leaving for a long ride home! I need to stop drinking when I don't want it anymore instead if this mindless stuff, or habit.

[quote="chelate]What a beguiling, illusory disease!!!! Sure feels good to have ya'll to communicate with. I was raised under the stigma of alcoholism and that because of it I am a worthless individual. Thanks to my disovery of TSM from the book Healing the Addicted Brain, I now know differently.[/quote]

Hmm, I looked up that book and did a word search so I'm not clear how you found TSM from the book. The only mention of naltrexone is a passing reference to it as an anti-craving med. The book struck me as an informercial for Enterhealth, touted in the book. I looked it up and it seems to be a string of tony rehab clinics.

Does anyone remember Dr. Perricone's books? I bought The Perricone Promise. It was full of valuable info but mainly encouraged the reader to spend hundreds per month on his "cosmeceutical" creams and supplements. I actually bought some of the topicals and I suppose my skin was better, if only because I was more diligent in applying them than I would have my department store stuff after the money I'd spent. I found it ironic that I had paid for a book that basically encouraged me to pay hundreds if not thousands for the author's products. BTW, as you who have used them know, the more you pay for Dr. Perricone's peptide creams, the worse they smell. A friend of mine thinks this is a sign they are effective but after a while I started to think Dr. Perricone has a great ironic sense of humor.

The Sinclair Method does not recommend or endorse pricey rehab; in fact, inpatient treatment would be counter-productive because it would preclude our drinking through our real-life triggers. TSM will never make the rehab folks rich because it is essentially a DIY protocol.

Chelate, are you sure you don't have us confused with some other modality?

As I mentioned before, here's a humorous little slice of life: SpringerRider saw a tv ad for a book by the Passages/Malibu late one night. The book in the ad has the words "Cure/Alcoholism" in the title. SR went online and -- thank God for us all -- ordered Eskapa's book by mistake!!!

BTW, the Passages/Malibu guy's book also touts his rehab clinic at around $70k a pop.

Buyer beware.

My initiation into TSM was identical to SR's. I saw an ad for Chris Prentiss' book, went online to check it out, and Dr. Eskapa's title came up. Yee-haw!

I am sorely disappointed in Chris P. He is widely known as a spiritual teacher/leader, with some wonderful books out under the pseudonym of Wu Wei. His son was a heroine addict, and supposedly Chris' methods helped him recover. So what does he do? Spends the profits on those books to build a posh rehab facility that charges so much money that only the 'few and the beautiful' could ever afford it. Claims an 85% recovery rate - but who knows? As far as I'm concerned, anyone truly interested in the welfare of their fellow human beings will do their best to make viable treatment available to as many people as possible. Even his book points readers to expensive alternative treatments, with no alternative self-help information. He should change his pseudonym from Wu Wei to Pee Yoo, cause it stinks for desperate people to call a facility for help and be told they're not valuable enough for treatment b/c they're not rich enough to be fleeced.