Originally Posted by
Timebuster 
Personally, I hate that word PAWS. Take away alcohol and that empty hole in your gut comes back and people right away call it PAWS. I know when I stopped drinking all the feelings of restlessness, Irritable and discontent that I would suppress and numb with alcohol came right back without vengeance.
I think what we miss when we think this way is, those feelings of restlessness, irritability and discontent are usually CAUSED by alcohol abuse. For sure in my case, after a period of weeks to months of sobriety, those feelings went away. Long-term abuse of alcohol has all kinds of consequences, and some of them only become apparent after we've quit for a while, but before we've healed enough for them to fade.