Suffering some extreme and intense feelings of loneliness with no way out in sight.
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Try to distract yourself. Maybe go to a meeting reach out to a friend in recovery. Let me know if I can help in any way
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This is the lie your addiction tells you to try to make you feel as miserable as possible. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING lasts forever. It's impossible. Even if it feels like it isn't ever going to end, it will. It has to. Try to remind yourself that you didn't come this far just to come this far. You're doing just fine.
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Astrid... This is your body fighting against itself. Now that you're feelings and emotions are no longer being being subdoed by alcohol and drugs it's time for them to make themselves known. If that makes sense.
Either way you're not alone.
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You okay?
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You are not alone Astrid. I’ve felt that way before too. Go do something good for yourself, something you enjoy. We are here for you🙏
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Astrid, you’re not alone. We are here always. When I’m lonely or feeling down, I go do lots of service! It’s my medicine and ALWAYS makes me feel better 
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Hi Astrid! I feel like I’ve been following your posts for a year or longer. You are doing so well! You have come a long way, and have learned so much. You know from past experiences that these feelings do pass, that our thinking is stinking, that this disease messes with our thoughts so that we get so uncomfortable that we numb ourselves. Keep reaching out. You are not alone. We are all in this together. If you don’t mind me suggesting, try some guided meditations on loneliness. It will be uncomfortable at first, but if you stick with it, you may find a deeper connection with yourself and the universe. That loneliness hole can be huge and never ending. It’s a challenge we must overcome to fill it up in healthy ways. This a challenge for most every addict/alcoholic
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Keep going to meetings, they work!!!
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I know loneliness can feel like it’s swallowing you whole, but you’ve made it this far for a reason. Sometimes, just letting yourself be seen and heard has sparked a to of connection. How feeling today?
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Hanging in there. I feel like daylight savings time created a vacuum that’s sucked all the motivation, and good and positive energy up. Plus challenges with my son (autism) and not knowing how to help him have added to the feelings of hopelessness
A little better. Trying not to feel so hopeless.
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I truly understand you, that is my biggest problem. But I hard to express that to people that don't understand addiction. I have to surround myself around better people
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Keep one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward one day at a time
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You aren't alone. That is a lie. If you can, get to a meeting. Even a zoom meeting will likely help. I go to the arcade sometimes just to socialize. It's easy to challenge a stranger to an old school video game and lose awfully, repeatedly. 
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Astrid, hi.
Checking to see how you are doing.
The whole it getting darker earlier stuff…depresses me, to no end.
I definitely have seasonal affective disorder, how apt that the acronym is “SAD”!
There are other realities bringing me down.
Just saying hello.
You are not alone.
We are all rooting for you, Astrid.