Hi Chuck48,
This is a good thread, talking about personality change and other people's reactions. I am less social than I thought I was, a lot of the time I would drink around other people because the alcohol stimulated conversation what would otherwise be very dull indeed for me.
Now the only conversations that really interest me are ones about recovery. I enjoy my own company a lot more and am more self motivated and can amuse myself.
Another thing I have noticed is that I used to always have the news on as I went about the apartment, now I just listen to classical music. I used the radio to block out the thoughts, the anxiety as a distraction.
I am so much calmer nowdays.
CaiHong