Originally Posted by
Zebra1275 
It get's better. Have you tried some face to face support in your area? I found that that connection really helped. Meeting people who look pretty normal, who have been sober for years, telling me how they used to drink (and it was often worse than me) gave me some hope.
I totally agree with Zebra. Face to face therapy gave me my own weekly forum to talk through the good/bad/ugly of what I was going through. And over time it provided me a measure of my progress. . .and just so you know, I went into it thinking it was complete crap. How wrong I was!