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How to cope with emotional intensity after numbing behaviors end

I stopped drinking six months ago and now I feel everything all the time and I do not know how people live like this without numbing out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The removal of coping mechanisms reveals the underlying nervous system dysregulation that the substances were managing.

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