Em, I was in AA once, but to be honest it really never felt safe to reach out within that template, as most thought "tough love" was the answer..and having been raised with tough love it just triggered my PTSD more, even now I have to think carefully about who to reach out too, as the more I learn in therapy the more it scares me when someone hasn't really been in therapy and could be acting out their old wounds onto my reaching out, so I guess there still is for me a limit on where and to whom my reaching out is directed...