Wayneo88@yahoo.com wrote:Today is my one month anniversary..been alcohol free for a month. Hooray, yipee, and all that other shit. Im tired of hearing everyone saying how proud they are of me. I'm dying inside.
Wayne, congratulations on the first month. But... how long have you've been drinking compared with how long you have been sober. Give it time. Obviously there is no miracle cure.
You probably spent years upon years drinking, your body, mind and spirit need time to heal. An analogy can be made to being in a coma for years. When you wake up, you can't expect not to be confused, disoriented, scared, angry, resentful. Consider this an awakening. Accept the feelings for what they are.
Time does heal everything. Remember falling in love with someone who later broke up with you? The pain that you thought would never go away. We'll it did. With time. But not by sitting alone in your room, dwelling on what you lost, but by going on with life. Good experiences do come along again.
The bad times you are going through now would only be worse if you were smashed off your ass. Think about that.