I am around 8 months sober and to write the changes would take a while but it is safe to say that it is like peeling off layers of badness, cruelty, low self esteem, angst, anger, self pity, insecurity, selfishness and it just keeps going.....and all of this stuff is falling off and you continue to try and find that person from 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. I really have sympathy for people who are functional alcoholics or homeless alcoholics etc and families (kids, wives, husbands etc) who have to experience a loved one being an alcoholic. Alcoholics are incapable of having any really true feelings for others, only for themselves.