Ummm...I'm going to be the lone dissenting opinion here. This was not normal for me once I got sober, although I had similar thoughts when I was drinking. You are essentially saying that your thoughts are suicidal...I think you should be talking to a professional therapist.
I'm glad you pointed that out Lafemme. I was focusing more on the desire to flee, and go somewhere else than the environment one is living in.
Suicidal thoughts should be taken very seriously.
And Dee, it's true, I still have the impulses to flee from situations. It didn't go away when I quit drinking. It was just a very important part of my recovery to identify that kind of behavior that I had been blind to for so long...