Old 12-02-2016, 03:26 AM
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Gottalife
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I was under medical care at the time. They even moved me into sheltered housing. And they diagnosed depression. What alse can the medical profession do? They have no cure for alcoholism and untreated alcoholism has virtually the same symptoms. So anti depressants were prescribed - no effect.

This is what gets me. Alcohol is a depressant, so taking it to treat depression should make me worse. It didn't. It instantly made me feel better, at least for a time. Alcohol was the only thing that worked. The ADs had some fancy name which was of great interest to my drug using friends, so I traded my pills for a substantial amount of booze.

Of course it was only a temporary solution and a year later I was back looking for ways to end the misery. Liquid or pill, I couldn't find the solution in a bottle, and just not drinking didn't work either.
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