Originally Posted by hypochondriac

Wait til you feel ready to tell them Andrea. I told family after a couple of sober months and it didn't help me. In the long run I am grateful for their support but it made things a bit difficult for a while, just because they doubted my need to be sober and it put a lot of doubt in my mind. I told very few friends and am only now feeling like I can be more open about it. What I learnt though is that it is much more important how I feel about it. When I was more confident in my sobriety it didn't matter what other people thought x