Originally Posted by
ArtFriend 
No one cares about you? We are having epic flooding here in Texas and people are dying and many have gone missing. The county I live in was just declared a disaster area. Scary stuff. I have not gotten one call/email/text/IM from my family (my huge extended family in MN) so see if I am OK. They all know I live alone. I guess I could be missing or dead and they would not care. I just feel quite sad about this. So sad in fact that I drank last night. I was tired and alone, two of the HALT acronym.
I know what people are thinking... why does she let other people dictate the way shes feels. I get that. Sorry.
A major aspect of my path to sobriety was discovering that I was afraid of solitude. I learned in childhood to become dependent on people, places, and things to distract myself from MY feelings of being alone!