Getting off a "Dry Bender"

AA Thought for Today

Sometimes, we become depressed. I ought to know; I have been a champion dry-bender case myself. While the surface causes were a part of the picture – trigger-events that precipitated depression – the underlying causes, I am satisfied, ran much deeper.

Intellectually, I could accept my situation. Emotionally, I could not.

To those problems, there are certainly no pat answers. But part of the answer lies in the constant effort to practice all of AA's Twelve Steps.

-- As Bill Sees It, page 30