Originally Posted by
Gypsy Feet 
I recently took the plunge into AA, but when I read our AA forums here, they often leave me feeling bewildered, scared, and put off. My solution is to get my AA elsewhere and IF I have a burning question I need answered here on SR, I privately message some one I trust, because frankly I am afraid to pose the question here.
Dito Dito Dito...For me the fear of concequences NEVER got me sober...I lived the 1st step long at hard ....before I got sober. What gives me sobriety is the 2nd step...coming to believe that sobriety was a possibility..not for you (I could believe that easily), but for me.
My personal belief is that the other 97% of alchoholics also have the hope of sobriety...that none of us need to suffer in this disease, and that SR is a place of hope for every alchohlic.