Old 07-21-2012, 09:41 PM
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DisplacedGRITS
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get used to being uncomfortable. when we we were drinking, we were comfortable. not drinking means we have to deal with emotions that we've been suppressing for years and are foreign to us. when they made us uncomfortable in the past, we drank them into oblivion. when they came to the surface again, we drank them back down. now, they are going to surface and we are not going to drink them away. acknowledge them. feel them. deal with them as they are or just feel them, knowing that they too shall pass with time. it may be uncomfortable, even painful but that is part of sobriety. it's part of being human. it's ok.

learn to ask for help. if those emotions are too much to bear alone, seek help! see a therapist, a counselor, a doctor. you don't have to deal with something that is too much for you to handle alone. we are social creatures and sometimes we forget that. look into all the options available to you and get help if you need it. do what you can so that you don't feel your only recourse is to drink the bad feelings away because they won't go away like that.
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