Originally Posted by
PoppiesInJuly 
I've been quiet about it in the past. This time I'm telling everybody. I told a friend today who came to be supportive. It felt good. I'm going to try and go to a meeting. I'm scared to go to a meeting, but I think it would be a good next step.
Most people find the first meeting scary. Most people are also pleasantly surprised by how at home and at ease they are made to feel once they are in the meeting. Everyone there knows, after all, what it is like!
I know it is easy to say and not all that easy to be reassured, but it really is most people's experience.