i know for me part of the reason why i struggled emotionaly and such is because for years i jsut numbed all that out with booze rather then coping and dealing with stuff in a proper way or well learning to do that in a proper way. I also think that perhaps something was jsut simple screwed up inside my head and i needed time to heal.
I probably came out of the fog per say at about 3 months. but things didnt really start to sometimes feel normal till a year or more sober to be honest. NOt htat things didnt get better they sure did it just was a slow process for me. I also had 0 support the first year too didnt go to meetings didnt even post here so its possible that slowed my progress to maybe I dunno.