In my experience, group meetings do help me tremendously. In the aa meetings I go to, they say to go to 1 meeting every day for 90 days. I know that seems overwhelming, but just take one day at a time and if you can't go one day then that's ok. If you can't go for 5 days a week, that's ok too. Just make friends at the meetings you go to and they can help guide you.

I know it's really hard to walk through the doors and go to an aa meeting. It depends how desperate you are to stop drinking. But aa meetings do work for tons of people, even if they aren't alcoholic. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.

I had alcohol abuse issues, and I have many characteristics of an alcoholic. But I was never a full blown alcoholic. I never drank every day, but I did drink multiple times a week. I may not even be an alcoholic. But I was certainly heading that way. I'd rather go to AA meeting then end up in court, jail, loosing my drivers license, mental hospital (in my case), or dead.