I guess if you accept that we are all unique, then our responses to alcohol and withdrawal will also be unique. We drink in different ways, binging, daily, all day every day. And we are all biologically slightly different and have different pasts etc.
It doesn't make any difference though, does it?
I mean, I knew I needed to quit. I took it a day at a time. I went to a lot of AA meetings and came here and no ones' story is exactly like mine - and more is revealed to me every day.
Stay off the ledge and you won't fall to your death.