Never Happy

I am not a spiritual person

I am kind of the same here, not at all religious, and in my interpretation of the A.A. recovery program, "spiritual" and "psychological" are kind of equivalent - they're all just "words" that try to frame our thinking.

I found the roots of my unhappiness in A.A.'s Step 4. Once I started approaching the recovery program with open-mindedness, willingness, and bringing honesty, I could begin to see why I was unhappy (fearful, angry, and self-pitying) and started to slowly change my behavior, attitudes, thinking, and emotions.

And I didn't become "happy" quickly - I'd say it was more on the order of months as opposed to weeks, and I've been finding that pretty much every year is 'happier' than the last. (I don't expect to by "happy" all the time every day for all of eternity, part of the "happiness" is accepting the fact that I'm not always going to be happy!)

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