Originally Posted by NoMoBeer
Been there, done that. I know those feelings well...
For me, if sobriety was just to "stop drinking," it would be pretty easy. I don't have a "drinking" problem, though -- I have a "living and thinking" problem. So I look at the different areas of sobriety -- physical, mental, spiritual, emotional. I personally need a program and some help to grow in any of those areas.
AA helps me with those issues, and I've got to try to live according to those principles to the best of my ability.
Not so much BTDT but there right now with you and hating it too
the rest of what NoMoBeer says is so true for me... I don't have a *drink* problem, I have a *Lucy* problem. My head is emotionally soooo screwed up I used to drink to shut it off, now there's no off switch. Except I realise now that there is... going to meetings, working the program and changing the way I think about stuff. My sponsor says, alcohol is a disease of perception.