Ready,
For me, when I felt like that it was suffering.
It lasts for a long long long time. I am coming up on 3 years without getting drunk.
3 years without turning off my mind with booze. That is what booze does. It turns off our analysis for a short time. Our problems melt away. Why was I ever stressed out.
This worked for years and years. Problems that seemed so big at first, the next day were gone. So it did work for the silly little problems.
But, obviously it was ruinning my mind and physical health.
When I quit all the little problems didn't go away. I would obsess over them. Sometimes for the whole weekend or what ever.
But, I came here and talked about them. I went to AA meetings and talked about them. I googled how to deal with obsessions and anxiety.
It is so much better now. I get frustrated still, but not like before. It is a whole new and better world.
It is how I was designed. I was not designed to be drunk all the time. None of us are.
Like they have been telling me since my first post on SR... it got better and better.
I still suffer, but I roll the tape and know that a relapse will only hurt me.
Booze is poison.
Thanks.