Thanks for posting this, I was in the early stages of what is being described here.
For me the best way I can describe where I was at when I finally quit, was the edge of the cliff..... I know for a fact that if I had drank one more month I would have gone over the edge and I am not sure how it would have ended for me, surely one of the ways most of us end our careers:
1. Incarcerated.
2. Institutionalized.
3. Dead.
4. Sober.
Great choices, thank God I chose number 4.