Just wanted to say hi to anyone struggling with PTSD and Alcoholism. Well...and everyone else, too!
I have been sober since 1/8/03 after years of going out when I was triggered and having no clue what was up. I know there are a lot of us in 12 step rooms but we tend to be so darn timid because the world can seem to be turned up so agonizingly loud at times...and the emotional stakes of participating are just HUGE...you know? Anyway, I have a quiet longing to share with people going through similarly jagged recovery paths because sometimes its just so hard to identify with the Bill W.-style big shots and the depressive folk, neither of whom seem to understand anything remotely like the ptsd state of hyper-agitation coupled with deep, dark introversion. Does this sound familiar to anybody?
I am profoundly grateful to be alive and sober and the kind of goofy, empathic fellow that my alcoholism, ptsd and AA have made me. But boy its tough sometimes...

Cheers all!
:)
Mike