Overman, congratulations on your hard earned sober time. two idea's I would like to suggest to you to take into consideration before you start any medication is, 1st alcohol could take a very long time to leave your body and the physical, and for sure the mental withdraws from it could take months, and 2nd treat the loss of alcohol as if you were grieving being separated from the love of your life, which is was for me, the anger and rage you feel could be one of the stages of grief and completely normal. I do believe this is my first post since I joined, but I have been reading, researching, and following up on recommended sites for the last 6 months or so, with the help of my higher power and the kind patient people in the AA program I will be celebrating 20 years of continuous sobriety from alcohol this week, but on and off for the same period of time I have suffered the misery and pain of what I now know from your site as Bi-Polar2 thank you.