I also suffer from depression. I don't expect getting sober to cure that. But I know from over 30 years of self medicating that that doesn't work. The only hope I have to work on the depression is by getting sober and staying that way. I'm still on that journey and don't have an answer for you. But I've wasted too much of my life self medicating and I do have hope now that I can at the very least relieve the depression. I'm already seeing some of that. With drinking I have no hope. I'm just pushing the feelings aside. With sobriety I have hope.