There are a lot of different routes to recovery. Some people like me find strength in AA. Some folks use Rational Recovery, some ppl use other means of finding help, but the point is a person needs to reach out for the help and that means acting on it, not just thinking about acting on it. You can do it. Maybe it feels like it's too much, but it's not. It can be done. Almost all of us here can bear witness to that.