Originally Posted by
Mel12 
Dear Mentium,
I wanted to touch base with you in that I notice we have similarities: (1) "flatness and depression" are prominent aspects of my early sobriety that promote relapse, and (2) I am older, that is, in my fifties.
So let's keep trading notes! And congratulations on your success this week.
Mel
Happy to Mel. Spring is in the air here for the first time after a long winter here in the north of England. Cheered me up enormously. Been out to a local walking spot with my dogs and I am feeling just fine!
You know I am sure one of the tricks to not feeling miserable in sobriety is to really accept one hasn't given up something wonderful that one is going to miss 'terribly'. When I think of the misery and anguish drinking has caused me surely the right response is to feel like celebrating a victory - however recent and tenuous at this stage. When one thinks of the millions, literally, who have dies from this condition..