I know what you mean SG. Sometimes six months feels like a long time and others it might as well be 6 days. A lot of us are probably quite impulsive people (comes with the territory) and we are learning to curb the drink impulse.
For me the big difference is this:
At a week I was not ok
At a month I was OK some of the time.
At 2 months I was OK maybe half the time .
Now I'm OK most of the time and when I'm not I can ride it out pretty well.
In a way you can think that you are always on the edge, one drink away from oblivion but in reality that choice has always been there. Walking on a cliff you are one step from the void. Driving your car...
We need to get drinking onto that list of crazy things you would never do because they'd be likely to kill you.
It's a bit weird, maybe, but I treat my problem as if I were allergic to alcohol. I have a friend who is really allergic to nuts and if he eats one it could kill him. I treat alcohol in the way he treats nuts. It's just really dangerous and poisonous to me. I have found this out and now I am recovering!
Not sure if that makes any sense at all, but it helps me...