Originally Posted by Beccybean

Dunno about dry drunk, but it certainly sounds like you're white-knuckling it a bit. I couldn't do that for long without feeling like I wanted to die, so you're doing better than I did. There's a definite difference, in my opinion, between sobriety and recovery. Sobriety stopped me f***ing up my life any further. But it was Recovery that helped me start: putting things right; putting me right; seeing things right, and helped me learn to be happy and comfortable without alcohol.