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Part of my issue, I know, is that much of the work I did in the past with this stuff centered around issues related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which manifests itself in me by triggering the flight response most of the time. I avoid, and when I can't avoid, my body wants to shut it down, and I get sleepy. I know that sounds strange, but hopefully someone here will relate to it.
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Sounds like a good time to meditate upon the two steps you've just done. Step two includes a line "restored to sanity". Things like PTSD fall broadly in the range of "insanity" - issues of poor mental health. Around SR you'll find many people talking about depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD - debilitating conditions no doubt, and how debilitating they are for you personally I obviously don't know. I do know that all alcoholics suffer from poor mental and emotional health (by definition, lol) in some shape or form, and all alcoholics cling on to these with literally a "better the devil I know" attitude. The simple fact is this. No sane human being wants to be sick. If we form an attachment to our poor mental health because it gives us an excuse, then that's a particular form of insanity. Certainly for me I used "I'm an alcoholic" as an excuse for a long time, and dabbled with "I'm depressed" until a dear friend committed suicide in a psychotic episode.
The steps wrought a profound change in me which included the ability to let go of things which were damaging to me. Some things, years later, I still struggle to let go of and I find that they are closer to inherent - and I have to learn to live with them. I remain hopeful however that with time and work, they'll go away too. The profound change that was wrought in me is that I now want to be well. I don't want depression or worry or anxiety or neurosis or whatever in my life. I'm prepared to let these things go. Meditate upon steps two and three again. Then see how you feel about beginning the process of letting go.
All the best