Ending the Alcohol Dependancy

I have been re-examining the recovery process from the 20+ year alcohol dependancy period that I feel ended around 2002-2003.
I now realize a crucial aspect of "Recovery" (or regaining your freedom) is how one feels about oneself, how one relates to ones self, and how one relates to the world.

Personally, the real difficult work and time involved several different Programs, like AA, St Judes, Cornerstone... and there were various detoxes, two suicide hospital stays (due to the struggle with the alcohol addiction) self help books, inpatient programs and out-patient programs.

But personally, at some point, a realization that I was ultimatly not a "Victim" of an addiction occured. It was a very profound and traumatic realization.

After that is when the REBT tools seemed to "make sense" or have gravity. They allowed me to allow myself to re-discover that I can rely and trust myself again.(concering my alcohol dependancy.)
The REBT tools do not "recover" you.. they allow you to allow yourself to re-apply and re-align your instincts and "common sense" concerning your addictive dependancy.
For lack of a better analogy, the REBT tools act like dissolving sutures, The tools are not "additions" to your ways of thinking, they "re-align" basic rational thinking and thinking patterns that you originally had, but for years you did not apply them to the addiction dependancy, beause the
alcohol dependacy was exclusive, and excempt from daily rational thinking. It was "exceptional" (in the true sences of the word)
but in time, rational thinking concerning the alcohl dependancy regains itself.

But the first part is critical..because whether a person truly wants to be free of something like an alcohol dependancy is souly up to the person..and that again is a seperate and profound (and traumatic) realization unto itself.