chronic severe depression ?
Q.Please be vigilant with your emotions. I am guessing that you are perhaps between 8 to 10 years sober and it is not uncommon to have a bout of clinical or near clinical depression around that time. Keep in touch with friends and LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU ARE DOING. I say this out of concern for you, your friends and loved ones. A dear friend of mine had a severe bout of clinical depression at 9 years..... and did not survive it.
A.I've been dealing with chronic depression for about 12 years now. I'm sober today and still taking psychiatric medication for the depression. All I can say is that I'm prepared to continue to take for the rest of my life if necessary. The Big Book says to make use of doctors and psychiatrists and I do. I didn't know that bouts of clinical depression are a part of AA recovery between 8 and 10 years. I better go back in time and get sick so I can be sober today. This time of year is always big depression time for me. And it's only in the past few years I have recognized that I have been depressed for a good portion of my life. Since I got into AA I have found many, many alcoholics suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts. As you know, sobriety does not solve everything. I think the millennium hype may have something to do with this year being so anxiety provoking. If I listen to too much of that I go crazy. I will be happy when it's all over. Sounds like you are in a spot with lots of potential for growth better recovery. For myself, I need to get very down before I can begin to see clearly again. One day at a time helps although it sounds trite. Are you helping others and getting outside of yourself. I can see many reasons for severe depression and yours may or may not be something I've mentioned. I eventually found it necessary to start on medication and I am now trying a lightbox as I've heard that has helped many. A few visits to a good psychologist with heavy experience in 12 step work might prove profitable. They might recommend a light dose of anti-depressants if it is clinical depression. Being vigilant with emotions has nothing whatever to do with chemical, clinical depression which is a primary disease of its own, not a result of alcoholism. guessing they have 8-10 years? Geez. this is insanity. You guess at a person's time in the program, make a diagnosis on this one "guessed" information and then... I hear what your saying about anxiety, suicide and depression. That is how I feel every day, and have for months. My brother, who was non alcoholic, committed suicide because of severe depression. It runs in my blood line, so to speak. I do not have any answers to this, I am still a practicing alcoholic, in the late stages of chronic alcoholism. I have tons of legal shit that keeps me sick. The anticipation of time and the result of the court crap scares me so bad, that I can't imagine life sober, not now. Suicide is always on my mind, and I have never told anyone that before. I thought it was abnormal to think that way really. However, maybe not huh?
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