Erin, I am so sorry about your experience. It sounds horrible! I just celebrated a year clean and sober on Tuesday. I don't attend AA on a regular basis, I did for a couple of months right when I first got out of inpatient (Dec. 21st of last year) and I didnt like it at all for a few reasons. I have extreme anxiety in social situations as well, so I know exactly how you feel!! AA was just to uncomfortable for me! I am not gonna sit around a table with a group of people I barely know and discuss my struggles. It also made me uncomfortable when people would say "Thank you for my sobriety". Thank who? Me? I dont even know you, I have nothing to do with your sobriety! I understand that it works for some people, and thats fantastic, whatever keeps you clean and sober is what you should keep doing! The final straw was when I was reprimanded for saying Jesus instead of "higher power". I am sorry, but the Lord Jesus Christ is my higher power and I am not ashamed of that at all and I will tell anyone that it is because of Him and His love for me that I am still sober a year later! 
Bless you, Erin.
Bless you, Erin.
