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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
I'm an alcoholic who had almost 22 years of sobriety in before I had a slip in late September. (It wasn't booze this time, it was pills, but the motive and the results were the same.)
I realize now that I was masking symptoms of both depression and mania with the alcohol. The trouble was, my problems were always there to greet me the next day.....drinking didn't make them go away.
I feel for you, I really do.  |
My entire post was lost. That being said, I have never felt hypo or manic but deeply depressed. It is the same thing, I presume, just masking symptoms, which as u say are there to greet u the next morning. It is always there.