I can relate to this post. I've always been a sensitive person, with nerves on top of my skin. I've got ways of hiding it, but things do get to me easily. Alcohol used to help with that. Then it added to the problem and magnified it.
So, I'm left here learning to face things head on. It's hard. It's a process to learn or relearn things that drinking fogged over and made us forget.
I'm only five months in myself. Taking it one step at a time. Things continue to get easier. From what many people in long term sobriety say, it continues to get better as we grapple with life without drinking.