Hi mps!
Denial - yes it's huge! I know it's hard to see real positives when you're so new to sobriety - but I'll put it this way: if it weren't positive, I wouldn't get sober and stay that way. I would go back to drinking if I were miserable, and I'm not - I'm anything but. I still have dark days but they've got nothing on the great days I've had since getting sober. Stick with us!