No offence to anyone, but I attended 4 AA meetings, I really didn't see how they would ever help me give up drinking. It just wasn't for me, I felt depressed afterwards to be honest.
I felt like that the first few meetings I went to too. Sometimes I still feel that way. However, I could see that people who had a lot of time up sober and were working the programme looked 'alive' and they were doing the things that I wanted to be able to do - have good jobs, travelling, having functional relationships, being happy - so I did my best to make some friends and connect with people in the rooms, get a sponsor etc. I figured I had nothing to lose by giving it a shot because nothing I had tried before got me sober for more than a day or two.