Really struggling right now with depression and anxiety. Feeling super alone and all in my head. 
I hate this so much! I don’t want to use again, I want to find the strength to get though this sober.
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Hey, I know what you’re feeling. I’ve been there, bad. It does get better. Reach out if you need to chat.
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You're not alone jenn. We are all here together
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So true
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Are you able to log into a meeting? Sometimes It helps to just sit/listen
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Jenn, please get to a meeting and then keep coming back. Reach out to people at them. There are lots of women's meetings if that's more comfortable and there are quite a few agnostic meetings out there too if that's your comfort zone. You can't do this alone. Get to meetings and reach out. .
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I also came here to get out of my head. Stay strong!
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I feel you have those days too so I try to get out of self by being of service and it’s uncomfortable but it’s the action that I take that will help me and my higher power 
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I am here for the same reason… try not to stay strong 
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Jenn, I experience anxiety on a daily basis. One thing AA taught me was to turnover my fears to my higher power. There are times when I recite the serenity prayer repeatedly. I find that this makes me realize that my anxiety is nothing more than a fear about something I have no control over anyways. Let go and let god. Here if you need to talk.
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Hey girlie, at first I thought I couldn’t do this at all. Here is sit sober and happy. My anxiety was so bad I didn’t want to socialize at all. All of that went away and now I am free from my anxiety without a benzo! I promise it gets better you just have to stick this out. It feels impossible but I promise there is freedom
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Are you able to get online and do a meet up yoga and some breathing yoga reiki something take a warm bath
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Keep working
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Great advice above about meetings.
Whatever your drug of choice is, it's never a solution.
Play the scene forward. Relief is short lived. When it's over you only have more guilt to carry around and then you have to start all over. It's called, believing the lie; that this time, it will be OK. But it never is, is it?
Here's a great app to find all kinds of meetings including Zoom.
It's 10 miles into the woods and 10 miles back out.
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Find a meeting!!
We don’t ever have to do this alone!!
Ours is a disease of perception and isolation!
If you have 1 day clean and sober you have something to offer the person just walking in. Reach out, use the phone. You are helping the person you are calling as much as they are helping you. Don’t try to do this alone!!
Prayers for you!! 
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We're all in the same boat with u... u r not alone.
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If you don't have a sponsor get one you can not do this alone, and get plugged in with your local s religious groups. AA/NA/SA these are my outlets. Just remember the pain you put on yourself last go around using, don't ever forget that pain and continue to push forward. Call someone get numbers from the women online in this application. You are not alone, you have a choice make the one that will save your life
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Pray, just pray. Even if you don't believe in God just pray to the Universe. When you ask the Universe for help it comes. I'm praying for your depression and anxiety to be lifted. 
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Check out the TNM approach. There are 2 good books. The 1st one is called This Naked Mind by Annie Grace. Her 2nd book is called The Alcohol Experiment. Her method is revolutionary!! I’m in her program The PATH now & it’s totally working! I haven’t had a drink in awhile & I have NO cravings because I had a mind shift. Her process is different because you set an EMOTION based goal (as opposed to a behavior goal). This “naked mind” (TNM) method is basically for alcohol but can be used for drugs too or any bad habit you want to work on. She recently co-wrote a book about quitting nicotine. Good luck!!!
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The one thing that helps me with this is the knowledge that alcohol will just make all of this worse. It’s a very temporary solution to a long term issue. The good news is that alcohol causes anxiety and depression. So if you can get it out of your system for a while; those things will get better.
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