I've been sober for 9 months, and I feel like a completely different person than I was at 6 weeks. I think the first part of recovery is more about "fighting the old" (our addiction) and eventually you get to a point of "building the new" (a much better life in recovery). For a long time, I felt like you did and lost patience too early in the process, but this time I spent a lot of time asking myself "why do you want to drink right now, and what can you do instead?" It does require some blind faith in the very early days, but if it stayed that hard, literally no one would stay sober.
It gets SO MUCH BETTER.