NO for alcohol 🚫 YES for ice-cream ✔️
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something..
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.