Like Dee said, you need to have patience. That's hard for alcoholics because we are used to instant gratification.
When I was drinking, if I didn't like the way I was feeling, I could have a drink(s) and change the way I feel in 10 minutes. Alcohol was useful for numbing feelings I didn't want to feel.
Now I don't do that anymore, so I had to learn new ways to deal with things, that in the past I would have drank over. For me, the fellowship of AA helped me to do that. But these changes didn't occur overnight.