34 days in. Any thoughts on how long the initial onslaught of the emotional roller coaster lasts?
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Someone once told me it takes about 5 years to find your marbles and the next 5 learning to play with them. Coming up to 4 years myself and can see what they mean but don’t panic because the hard part is definitely those first few weeks and I promise you it always gets easier.
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The journey is different for everyone but the same but is that the beginning weeks are the hardest and it does start easing up after. I’m on 20 months myself and still have days of emotional rollercoaster madness but they are days with many days / weeks in between amazing days and they don’t last as long
Sobriety is not just about giving up your DOC but also finding yourself and learning to live life with all its ups and downs without the help of substances.
Keep going…you will soon start experiencing the joys of sober living 
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Emotions are a part of life, using is only ever going to let you mask them or indeed let them come out in ugly, uncontrolled ways. Personally, I can definitely see that I am more emotionally stable after 20 months sober. Then again, I recently experienced an emotion-heavy event and took it out on my sister, for the first time ever. That taught me two things: 1. being sober does not mean that your emotions will always be in check and 2. I have some amends to make with my sister.
Hope that helps, keep up the good work! 