Originally Posted by
JustEsperanza 
That's scary. I have never told anyone about my addictions and the thought of it terrifies me
Someone once told me that he was scared to go to AA at first. He told his wife that he was scared people will find out that he was an alcoholic.. His spouse told him that people in his life already know, and that his alcoholism was obvious to everyone.
No matter how much you believe that people don't know about your drug addictions, there is a great chance they already know. I felt like my life was going to fall apart when people found out about my addiction to alcohol, but the response I got was more of relief from those around me. They were happy that I was going to recover, and now they have a much higher level of respect for me.