FomerBeerLover, congrats on your sober time, and great that you are feeling this way now.
Turns out most of that stuff was in my head and the alcohol only made it worse. It was a vicious cycle that I could not see, until I decided to stop self-medicating and really look at myself through sober eyes.
Wow, I can totally relate to this and I can say the same things about myself. And while it's true that dealing with these issues requires some work and time, it is like you said:
it really gets better all the time. Now at 7.5 months, the place I am in mentally is extremely different from the despair and turmoil I was in before I got sober.
Edit: actually, it got better from the beginning, but what I meant to say is that the process of improvement is ongoing
