Right, what you said makes sense. Essentially, it's the same thing, that is, we're feeling at our best in opposite states.
My perception of the world and state of mind seems better to me sans ethanol, yours is the opposite. But that doesn't mean it's a bed of roses for me, it's just that ethanol doesn't work for me to make things better. This is a very complex matter of which millions of words have already been written and clearly I'm not going to come up with any new insights.
What I've tried to say is that these differering worldviews make it difficult to make life easier for alcoholics.
It's strange really why different people have such different responses to alcohol. Despite what I said about the negative effects of alcohol on me I nevertheless love the taste of good wine and I reckon it's a damn cruel act of fate that alcoholic drinks are so nice and yet at the same time alcohol is far from being just another innocuous additive.
Trouble is that the level of alcohol in many alcoholic drinks has increased in recent years when it ought to have been decreasing. For example, a top Bordeaux traditionally has 12.5% alcohol-that is, the world's best wine needs only that amount of alcohol, yet on the shelves of liquor stores where I live almost all wines now have 14.5% or more alcohol. It used not be like this but winemakers found that if they increased the level of alcohol then the wines needed almost no ageing and could be turned over more quickly.
That's a sore point with me, wines may be sold more quickly by increasing their alcohol content but good wines must still be aged. Again the quick buck has gotten in the way of better health and governments have done stuff-all about it.
I hope that alcohol eventually becomes much less of a problem for you.