Originally Posted by
ScottFromWI 
Don't feel stupid, this is exactly why SR exists - to support you when you need it. Everyone has good and bad days, and while your problems may not seem "severe" in comparison to others, they are problems in themselves that you must deal with. And they potentially threaten your sobriety - so that's just as important to you as anything.
Lots of good advice here already, and I'd also add as an anxiety sufferer that life simply has good and bad days. Our addiction still tries to take hold sometimes on the bad days and tell us that there's a magic solution for feeling "bad"....but we all know drinking only makes it all worse.
Originally Posted by
2012Starlight This is part of what I fear in terms of continued sobriety... that eventually, my life will not be better anyway. Not being able to have a drink is dull and makes everyday look the same, life gets very bland.
heres a couple lines from the big book of AA that caught my attention early on:
you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead.
although i dont like that word existence-i was doing that when i was drinking. today i am LIVING!!!
but when i read that i was a miserable wreck.
i was told early on, and i thorouhly believe it, that i can do anything i want and make any possibilities be reality. i can make my life great and have tons of fun as long as i dont drink and put in the work to make that happen.
it was MY choice to make my life better and enjoyable with lots of fun.
BUT
i had to learn how to do that. many things just didnt feel right doing without drinking.
fishing without a cooler full of beer?!?!?
working in my shop without a cooler full of beer!?!?!
going to the races without driniking!?!?!
going to concerts clean and sober!?!?!
(im going to one tonight)
it was ALL possible! i had to really work at changing my attitude and outlook, but today, just sitting out on my deck watching the birds and listening to the tigers game....
im honestly enjoying it.
it took T.I.M.E.