Originally Posted by
Hawking22 
I'm crawling the walls with boredom and emptiness, growing pissed that there is only so much I can clean, so many meetings I can go to, so many errands I can run, so many people I can text...
Can anyone provide any suggestions about staying out of your head,
Sober, I found it hard to get out of my head. That's what I drank for. Escape. What helped in early recovery was understanding what my head was doing, which was circling the drain until I drank.
Since that wasn't an option, I chose to suffer through it. It was tough, but short lived compared to the 35 years I drank. But at a couple months sober I was able to find that activities were activities again...not just a way to avoid drinking.
Stay strong.