solidarity for sure.... it really DOES help just knowing it's not just me. Not that I'm glad for others' suffering, but to know that someone else 'gets it'.
All told, things are good and like you, this morning I was thinking about small changes, small steps, small things to look forward to.
Might be that this is just life in the human condition. Might be that we who have a tendency toward addiction are particularly-attuned.
Guess the why doesn't really matter because it IS, and so it's the how do we respond that is most important.