Boredom

 

"Nothing is interesting if you are not interested." Helen MacInnes There is a distinction between "dry" and "sober." Sober alcoholics choose not to drink because they have accepted their alcoholism. Dry alcoholics are not drinking but are invariably angry and resentful and do not express these feelings.Their abstinence is not exciting because they are not interested in it; they are bored. They really want to drink. They have stopped drinking for reasons that do not include acceptance of the...