For many of us, it's easier to walk away from help and support than it is to accept it. For some of us, it's even easier to walk away when we don't get the kind of support we want, or when we don't get support in exactly the way we want it.
The turning point for me was working through my resistance to help, no matter what form it took. In my first year back following my relapse, I did inpatient detox, 28-day rehab, one-on-one counseling and AA. I didn't always like what I heard, and I consented to do many things that I'd have preferred not to do, but my decision to stop killing myself with booze trumped any discomfort I may have experienced among all the resources I used to help me to achieve sobriety.
There are so many good people here that it is at times difficult to imagine that the rest of the world is not quite the same.