Addiction & Recovery

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Well, is it really a battle and is that up to you? How you frame it for yourself might influence how you experience things, but repetition may make the idea sticky.

I would like to suggest that alcohol fools your brain/mind by messing with your dopamine system, etc. It becomes an alluring picture of feeling better, (that short rush at the beginning) that can predominate your responses. It also creates a vicious circle/cycle because you nervous system can be affected so much that when it wears off it creates a craving to resolve the results of the drinking.

That's just something to consider. It takes a good while of sobriety to break that cycle and get back to a more natural and healthy cycle.

I could add that wanting so badly to not feel what you feel and putting so much emphasis on, say, wanting to feel "happy" can actually make you miserable. Be with what you feel if you can. Let it be alright for now and see if you naturally move into what is even better as a basis: calm, relaxed, balanced, peaceful. That is soothing, uplifting and fortifying. A lot of energy goes into what you are describing and that can just wear you out and, of course you would feel it.

Be Well. It will pass. Patience is a good thing to cultivate.