So what have I learned so far?
The following based of recovery from on my own experience from being a 'problem drinker in 2008 and those eight years later.Which saw me facing three months hospitalization involving, using the surgeon's words,'A very stressful, traumatic experience', which began with a surgeon telling me that whilst he and his team where prepared to operate there was only a slim chance I'd come out of it,' following which, for a time at least. It all went downhill from there...
' A man who has faced his own mortality is no longer a slave and is above externals.'
With a nod of acknowledgement to Moliere and Seneca,'Letters to Lucilius'.