Sober But Still Miserable? The Dry Drunk | Borrowed Wisdom Pt. 3 Bob D

Sober But Still Miserable? The Dry Drunk | Borrowed Wisdom Pt. 3 Bob D

Another Borrowed Wisdom episode — I read the highlight clips from a Bob talk that shifted something in me, and reflect on them one at a time.

This one lands hard on the stuff nobody tells you when you first put the drink down: that the real problem starts where the bottle ends. Bob talks about being restless, irritable and discontent as a little kid, long before he ever picked up. The "disease of more" that no amount of drinking, drugs, or even getting jacked at the gym could ever fill. And the scariest place I've ever been in my own recovery — the dry drunk. Sober, but not living.

We get into geographic escapes that don't work, the redwoods that topple when they grow alone, and why community is the thing that replaced the drink for me. It closes where it always seems to: everything you want is on the other side of the action you're avoiding.

Chapters below. This is lived experience and peer perspective — one addict sharing what's kept me sober one more day.

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