Originally Posted by
Greenwood618 
However, I am somewhat ambivalent about such matters. Not sure it is valid or helpful to express pride and gratitude to people for not engaging in immoral behavior.
Of course, most drunks and former drunks don't believe that. They claim to be victims of a disease that no credible medical authority classifies as a disease.
My family are proud of me, because I broke out of the currently established, and prevailing, societally ingrained, pattern of learned powerlessness/helplessness over imbibing alcohol, once the physical/mental addiction sets in. They're very grateful too, for SR and the Rational Recovery founder.