Hello, new to this group. I’m trying anything I can to stop drinking. Mostly I just drink out of boredom. Not to be whining but at this point I don’t have many friends left and the few I have drink all the time. I’m simply looking for friends and real support. I have never been this low in life before and I’m stuck. Really stuck.
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I didn’t want to try AA and I quit for six months on my own. But I was miserable. I would give a recovery program a try. I don’t even work their program, I go for the fellowship and support.
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I listened to the AA audio books and those were interesting. I never had a sponsor but I attend online AA meetings. The meetings were what helped me get out of a serious rut and onto sobriety.
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Get to a meeting and introduce yourself. You will have more than friends. You will have a family of supporters that will help you when you can’t help yourself. And love you when you don’t love yourself.
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Try AA if you can’t make a meeting in person do online and if you ever need to talk I’m here
Showing up is 90% of it. Go to a meeting. Share how you feel. It will help. Here for support
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Meetings-meetings 90 meetings in 90 days.and for the year. Aa 
Definitely try a local AA meeting. I’m 44 days sober and it’s soooo nothing like I’ve ever expected it to be. It’s called a fellowship for a reason. It becomes like family and you’ll get so much more support being around those going through the same or have gone through shockingly the same exact things you have (there’s always someone who has a similar story). A huge part of recovery is cutting out all the toxic people like those heavy drinker friends. That won’t help you stay sober. Go to a meeting and make sober friends. They hold a lot of sober functions and stuff too!
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For me it’s a combination of going to meetings, fellowship, and working the steps with my sponsor. I remember when I was first exposed to the 12 steps they sounded like they were written in Jupitarian👽
Turns out they’re pretty simple, with lots of big hoops you can jump through. One of AA‘s founding fathers, Dr. Bob liked to sum them up in 6 words:
Trust God (higher power if you will), clean house, help others.
The best part, helping others, offers the greatest relief. And the cool thing is you can start on that right away. If you have seven days sober, and you tell somebody with one day sober how you did it, you’re helping them. Reach out to anyone you can, take them to meetings, offer to make coffee at a meeting or take out the trash.
In my experience, Being of service gets me out of my head and doing esteemable actions gives me self esteem:)
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I go to 12 step along with other peer ran recovery groups. I don't have a sponsor or work the steps, but hearing others struggles and their solutions have helped me tremendously.
The traditions and principles of 12 step definitely taught me how to achieve "sobriety of thought".