I wish I had enough courage to attend a meeting. I hate it out here. I need to let some shit out, man, sometimes I just wish I had someone to talk to but reaching out is the hard part. The phone feels like a brick.....
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Oh hell yea that phone can feel like a ton when we need help!!! But shit how weightless that phone was when I’d be dialing my dealer several times a day 
u know I’ve been to meetings a million times… I had 3 yrs+ sober & daily I went to a meeting…idk why but I can’t go now… I had gotten sober a little over 4 yrs ago & the outpatient that I went to would have a meeting there every Monday so I did go to that one & as of recently I have been looking them up but just to do online!! I thought maybe if I started them that way hoping that I would go in person eventually…I did do a telephone woman’s meeting a few weeks ago & it went well…I just have to keep doing it!! When Covid started that was it I stopped having contact with everyone…I belonged to several sober fb pg’s & would post daily, quotes, the daily reflections & then nothing after I moved March 14th 2020 & 2 days later everything shut down here & it’s like I checked out…isolated very bad & for way too long!! But I’m slowly coming out of it!! Maybe just attend an online or phone meeting for now hopefully it’ll get u to an in person one eventually!! Good Luck 
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I feel the same way bro. Fresh out of prison. Life's lonely as hell but just do u my guy
If you rich out a little each time.people need to try .if I gave up I would be died. 34 yea
Meeting makers MAKE IT as they say in AA. I had to totally surrender. I've been to hundreds of meetings over the years and am still sober. What do you have to lose except your life ? 
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You had the courage to come here. That is a start. You might try a virtual meeting to get you rolling. Remember too that everyone at those meetings were once in your shoes.
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For me Sometimes maybe the age gap.once I got started I was good.beginner meetings are a good place to start.take a friend or two.
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Brandon
Ur looking at it wrong let me help
U don’t have a choice brother
Ur choices led u to where ur
Do something different
U cannot afford not to go to a meeting
If u don’t go
Well it’s just time and we know where our best thinking gets us yeah?
So give urself a break
Go get the love encouragement and support u deserve and hide in the back like I used to til u feel comfortable coming up front
Don’t be afraid to go
Be afraid not to go
U can only prosper and benefit going
To not go….
If we aren’t progressing
We are regressing
If I’m not working on my recovery
I’m working on relapse
True fact
Be well!
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I was super resistant - but after advice from a counselor decided to give it a try. It was really emotional for me after I decided to go in - not sure why - but the group did not put pressure on me to talk - (I couldn’t) and I just listened - they ran a first step meeting for me and their stories - all sounded exactly like mine. Give it a try - I’d say try a zoom meeting to dip your toe in but face to face is better imho. Good luck. Nothing to lose.
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