Congrats to you, BD, for taking such great care of yourself.
To you as well Sassy.
To say my recovery has been entirely static and linear would be a fabrication.
The most insidious feature of depression is that it doesn't just announce to you that it has decided to pay you a visit.
To paraphrase Carl Sandburg (about fog), it creeps in on little cat feet.
For me, stress, anxiety and seeming hopelessness seem to come out of nowhere.
I eventually determine that I have depression and simply take some extra meds for a few days and it recedes.
I then feel back to normal.
I manage my depression and anxiety - they're not cured.
Like my alcoholism, having depression and anxiety is not my fault, but addressing them is my responsibility.
Kudos to all of us on here who work so hard to take care of ourselves.
Getting sober is about growing up and getting better.
It's not about languishing in hopelessness and misery - we did plenty of that while we were drinking.