Originally Posted by
VikingGF 
Part of not drinking is feeling all the feelings. Sometimes it helps me when I sit with the feelings and try and figure out where they are coming from. Even if I can't control the reason, it helps to know why I'm feeling a certain way, and as others have said, it doesn't last long. Drinking never makes it better, from my experiences, because I tried that too, and it didn't end well.
Yeah it never ends well. Drinking for me takes pain or sadness away but it's only temporary. Once I sober up it would still be there and most of the time the pain and sadness were caused from drinking in first place. It is a vicious cycle.