[Astro]

I come from a family of hard-drinking alcoholics, I'm also a loner and an isolator, I liked to drink at home, it was cheaper and I could hide my condition pretty well.

I tried to quit many times by myself, the only thing that eventually worked for me was AA, but you've already said you'd prefer to do without. Just speaking for myself, I wanted sobriety so badly that I was willing to do anything, even try AA. In spite of my shyness and social anxieties, I've always felt welcomed in the rooms of recovery.

In early recovery I had to see a therapist as part of my IOP program. After a few visits and being prescribed an SSRI for depression and anxiety, he suggested I quit wasting his time and my money, and do what made me happiest and worked. That was AA meetings, and the 12 Steps of AA.