IMO we are all a little like each other, at least in many respects. Listen for the similarities. If you do you will find some, and with that will come solutions. Listen long enough and you are bound to hear your own story from someone who is half (or twice) your age, a different sex and has a very different view of the world.
Doing something different means just that, you got to change it up, some how, some way. If not AA, or the way you did AA in the past, I still suggest you have a FIRM plan.
And I suggest you make it soon.