So relax, already.

Alcoholism is a chronic (= long-term) problem. It requires a long-term solution.

It will also produce acute (= short-term / sudden-onset) symptoms. These require-short-term, fast-acting solutions.

If you're in recovery and taking the steps, you're already addressing the chronic problem. Let that work itself through. What does that mean? Complete the first nine steps, get into sponsorship and service, and let those activities take. Then see what's left over.

Until then, short-term, fast-acting solutions are necessary.

So, when someone suggests going for a walk, cleaning your room, going to a meeting, listening to Haydn, or other apparently trivial solutions, that might be because they're addressing the acute symptom, as the chronic problem is already in hand. It's not that they're not hearing you or addressing the gravity of your issue. It's about appropriate solutions at appropriate levels.

So relax, already.