Except your doctor. Anti-depressants probably saved my life, sober. I felt like a piece of shit for needing them, but depression runs strongly through my family. Glad you fired that sponsor.

Take care of yourself, a lot of things in the news hit me at a personal level, the humiliation Trump gives to women on a regular basis took me back to a bad college relationship that I drank myself through, and that was 30 years ago.

Keep your head high and know that you aren't the only person who goes through stuff like you described. I tend to feel like I'm the only person who has the feelings I feel and have to remind myself that being human includes everyone. Someone once said in a meeting I was in that the best he could ever be was human, over 20 years ago, but I still think that may have been the best thing I've ever heard.

I knew that doing really stupid stuff would 'orphan' 2 elderly cats and hurt my mom. I would/could not do that, maybe that knowledge is my rock bottom.

seen that...some anti-depressive/ anti-anxiety meds work...
these meds are between us and and our doctors..not our sponsors.

Our sponsors do not define for us.
Deep in our heart and soul.. We know...
I have had to fire three sponsors for various reasons..

We need to live in today..not them..
We do the very best we can do..that's it.
Deep in our heart, and HP,
We know.....

My meds saved my life.
Raised my mood.
Allowed me to see things and people that I could not see..

We have to hang in there, no matter what..
Let us not give up...

On prescription medications -- I don't think the Big Book EXPLICITELY says anything about medications, but it does say see doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists when needed, so its probably a distinction without a difference.

Big Book - Chapter 9 p. 133-134

One of the groups I belong to is a literature group which has kind of morphed into a beginners' group. We recently decided to read "Living Sober," good for beginners, and it's been quite popular in the group. We just had to order more books since attendance has been way up and we wanted to make sure we had a book for everybody. It's available online if you're interested:

https://sites.google.com/site/aspiritualrecovery/literature-pages/living-sober

By Sarah Hepola. I have been doing a lot of reading to blot out the tangtwit & company.
I do have the Living Sob1st book on the Living room bookshelf, time to move it next to my chair I think. 😊😁

We've gotten a lot more regulars - both beginners and long timers - at that meeting, always a good thing. That book is relevant to all of us.

We used to use As Bill Sees It at that meeting - my favorite book - but the meeting had to move, we're now at a halfway house where many just got out of detox or rehab, so they find it helpful and it's exciting that we're now getting "old timers," too, since they're so helpful to those who are struggling or just starting out...

Excellent book.

Ooops, meant to post it as a reply to Rhiannon's mention of the Living Sober book. Oh well.