To further prove you are not alone, when you call the AA hot line in your area it will be answered by a recovering alcoholic, you will not wind up walking to some one who has not been right where you are at right now!
Knowing we are not alone is one of the big reasons AA works, we get to meet face to face people who have been in the very same spot we are in. We are able to talk to someone who understands what it is like to HAVE to drink, someone who knows what a black out is, some one who knows what it is like to take one drink and have absolutely no idea how many drinks they will have after that, someone who knows what it is like to not simply drink to get drunk, but to need to drink for oblivion!!!
But the most important thing you can find in the rooms of AA is miracles, alcoholics who are sober and happy, alcoholics who can honestly say that they could care less if they never had another drink because the obsession to drink has been lifted and they have learned how to life life on lifes terms happily sober.