Originally Posted by
GreenThumbRN 
Thanks everyone for checking on me. I'm on day 6. Haven't drank. I've been lurking, just trying to keep busy. I'm craving right now but trying to stay strong and think of how awful I would feel tomorrow. The guilt etc.
Great work on day 6! Well done you for getting back to sobriety.
Please keep posting. I find that, as reaching out was something I never did before recovery, it's important that I keep those lines of communication open and contact folk (both in here and in AA) regularly and even when I don't need to. That way when I actually NEED to it isn't so difficult and unnatural.
Regarding getting to meetings and anxiety, you know, I don't think anyone ever turned up to their first meeting in any other state than high-anxiety. No one would judge you there, for being anxious (and all the stuff we do as a result of anxiety) or anything else. The experience strength and hope I found in meetings was very healing to me in early days (before I had any experience strength or hope of my own to get me through).
Wishing you all the best for your sobriety and recovery. BB