Originally Posted by
ScottFromWI 
The "brain fog" is very common in early sobriety. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, so it literally changes our brain chemistry on a pretty major scale, especially if we drank daily for a long period of time. In essence, your brain is literally waking back up...and it takes some time for it to happen - years of abuse don't just get undone in a few weeks unfortunately.
Yeah I already feel much better than I did in the first month or so, but there are still some days when it's just like holy s*** this whole actually having to feel my emotions thing is just too much.
And weirdly I seemed to have more motivation when I was drinking (although it was never consistent). For now I'm just sticking to my boring routine and hoping I'll re-gain the energy to make other positive changes this year.