i have to really really lay off coffee and of course cigarettes (totally not smoking) and cut down on white sugar too as a part of my quitting drinking. all of which arent good for anxiety and also another part of why i dont go to AA - i dont believe in intaking a bunch of sweets and caffeine when trying to rid alcohol from your life also, i have anxiety in groups with a subject as personal as my story and life issues and alcoholism. (plus, i am in a town where i dont want people to know i have an alcohol prob - so a meeting would not work! people DO talk and DO judge, critique, preach, threaten, etc., "anonymous" or not! at least in my city and among the general social scene! everybody knows everybody in clubs and in my industry. anyway AA was invented when there was no internet. i see how the going to groups and having the support can help but i get no anxiety doing it here online so thank goodness for this forum and others like it!