a) Acknowledging I have a drink problem to people I don't want to know that.
b) Embarrassing a family and having them face another false hope.
As I mentioned above in an earlier post, the 3 or 4 month 'cure' is not even really supported by the data found in Eskapa's book. If you look at one of the charts he presents a few times as evidence of the method it shows roughly the following:
115 successful patients with pre-TSM average drinking of only 37 units per week. These were heavy drinkers but not exactly all star alcoholics.
At 110 days on TSM (nearly 4 months), they were down to about 17.5 units per week, a 50% reduction in drinking.
It took these successful patients about 9 months to reach only 9 units per week, which is about a 75% reduction in weekly units.
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