Maybe its cause I am a lawyer and love a healthy discussion, but I amanita seeing any bickering here, just interesting dialogue on a question that I think is important to many early on -- am I broken or can I be fixed.
I always look to smoking for my answer cause it is a less loaded topic.
I smoked for ten years and stopped smoking 35 years ago.
I never think about smoking and would never smoke again even if they decided it was good for me because it is a disgusting vile habit -- 100 percent sure.
But I know that if I do, I will be at it with the same vengeance as 35 years ago -- also 100 percent sure.
How do I know -- same way I know my name is Dropsie and I am short.
Am I recovered -- yes.
Am I addicted -- yes.
As long as I recall the latter, I am good.
Ditto re drinking for ME.
But because, like many of us, I have no physical addition to alcohol, it took me a while to realise that I was just as addicted and the result of one drink is the same as one cigarette.
Now that I know that, like I know my name and my height, the rest follows on.
Am I recovered in the sense I have no desire to drink -- yes.
Am I addicted -- yes.
Same as I am short.
Others might not even be addicted -- only you know that -- but we all know, admit less, but know more.
I know.