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Why sobriety can feel meaningless even when successful

I have been sober for two years but I still wake up every day wondering what the point is and fighting the urge to drink.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Recovery removes the numbing mechanism without automatically providing existential replacement, leaving raw confrontation with emptiness.

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