I don't know about anyone else but it took me about 3 months to really appreciate how much my drinking coloured my perception - even after I quit.
For most of those 3 initial months I really missed my old life and my old friends, I missed my escape...but I also knew that it was not a sustainable way for me to live....in fact it was destroying me...so I stayed stopped.
Eventually I realised I was changing....I no longer missed it....I was losing the dark clouds I used to wrap around me....I actually preferred being clean and sober.
Now...I don't hate my DOC...it's just a liquid that I abused, not the other way around.
I hate what addiction does to people, but just feel nothing about alcohol really - it's from another life....
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