Hit 40 and got hormonal anxiety and depression

[flutters]

About 14 months. Cold turkey. It was great for about a year. Then it turned nasty. I’m not getting the sense that’s common.

I wrote about it here:

Thoughts from the Dark Side

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about coming to my MAV family with this. It’s so personal as to be overwhelming, but I love you all and I’m working on trust. 5 pm on a Friday following a real bitch of a week and a finger of whiskey and I have fortified my resolve. Yesterday, at work, I was the unwilling and surprised subject of an excessively public “private” intervention from a crisis counselor and addiction recovery specialist. Honestly, Mortification should be a listed MAV symptom. But, I’m …